Marine Le Pen launches 2027 presidential campaign with ‘Renaissance for France’ pledge on borders, security and economic renewal

Marine Le Pen formally launched her 2027 French presidential campaign in Orléans on Sunday, promising a national “Renaissance” built around tighter borders, tougher action on crime and immigration, economic revival and resistance to what she described as France’s decline under President Emmanuel Macron.

“Nobody thinks we are stronger today than yesterday,” Le Pen told supporters, arguing that after nearly a decade of Macron the words associated with France were “ruin, decline, erasure, riots and even chaos.” She said the country’s condition was the fault of its leaders rather than its people.

The National Rally candidate pledged to restore what she called a “double border,” both French and European, and said France would confront Islamist ideology, violent far-left movements and rioters she described as the armed wing of “antifa.”

Le Pen also vowed to prevent what she called the “Mexicanization” of France through the growth of drug cartels, saying criminal organizations would be “eradicated” and treated as terrorists.

On the economy, she rejected what she described as a policy of industrial, agricultural and energy “degrowth” imposed by French and European leaders, arguing that it was pushing France toward underdevelopment and ruin.

Le Pen also opposed further increases in the retirement age, saying she would focus instead on getting young people into stable employment earlier. She cited an average age of 27 for obtaining a first stable job.

Her speech came at the close of the National Rally’s congress in Orléans, where she sought to present herself as the candidate of order and national renewal after weeks of protests and unrest across France.