French presidential hopefuls share details of love lives ahead of race
Key takeaways
- With little more than a year to go before France elects its next president, at least two potential candidates have decided to open up about their love lives in a bid to win over French voters.
- Issued on: 27/04/2026 - 18:58Modified: 27/04/2026 - 19:01
- By: FRANCE 24 France's former prime minister Gabriel Attal is tipped as one of the contenders in next year’s presidential race.
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With little more than a year to go before France elects its next president, at least two potential candidates have decided to open up about their love lives in a bid to win over French voters. While Emmanuel Macron’s former protégé and prime minister Gabriel Attal has told all in a new book, Jordan Bardella, the leader of the far-right National Rally, was recently “spotted” with his girlfriend on a beach in Corsica by glossy magazine Paris Match.
Issued on: 27/04/2026 - 18:58Modified: 27/04/2026 - 19:01
By: FRANCE 24 France's former prime minister Gabriel Attal is tipped as one of the contenders in next year’s presidential race. In a recently published book, he dedicated a whole chapter to the “man of his life”, Stéphane Séjourné. Photo taken at the Agricultural and Trade Fair in Chalons-en-Champagne, France, on September 8, 2024. © François Nascimbeni, AFP/ File picture Two French politicians have opened up about their love lives in what seems to be a celebrity-press-friendly move laying the ground for a run at the presidency next year.