Presidential: women candidates

Evocation of the official launch of the campaign for the presidential election of Christine Boutin. Commentary on factual images alternating with an interview with Christine BOUTIN.

Presidential: women candidates

Marie-George BUFFET, PCF candidate in the presidential election, is visiting Grigny in the Essonne. At a meeting, she meets the inhabitants to answer their questions.

Presidential: women candidates

The candidates in the first round of the presidential election are campaigning. Nathalie ARTHAUD, candidate of Lutte Ouvrière, is visiting the Merck factory in Eragny-sur-Epte. This company is in the process of closing. Interviewed after speaking to the employees, she explains: "We should prevent these large groups that are rich to billions from closing factories...".

Presidential: women candidates

As part of her campaign for the presidential election, the FN candidate, Marine le PEN, went to the company La française de mécanique, in Douvrin. With her team she distributes leaflets to employees leaving the factory. After a micro-sidewalk of employees saying what they think of this application, interviewed, Marine the PEN explains: "We are constantly carrying the word of the workers, the word of the industry, the word of the employees also by the way..."

Presidential: women candidates

Campaigning for the presidential election, the candidate Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Eva JOLY, went to Hénin-Beaumont, then to Fesnes sur Escaut. Surrounded by journalists, the candidate greets merchants in a market. Interviewed, she explains about Hénin-Beaumont: "...we must give back to the inhabitants of this city the power over their destiny...".

Presidential: women candidates

Presidential: women candidates

As part of her campaign for the presidential election, the candidate of the Socialist Party, Ségolène ROYAL, is in vsite in Fort de France, in Martinique. After a return to the school of her childhood, she meets at the Town Hall, the former mayor Aimé Césaire. She gives a speech in the market of Fort de France, during which she says: "I will be the president of the Republic of France mixed...".

Presidential: women candidates

Catherine TAUBIRA, Member of Parliament for Guyana, is running for the Left Radical Party in the presidential election. She is visiting Moyeuvre-Grande, in Moselle, who has come to meet the population in a social laundromat. Interviewed, she says: "What I find fascinating is to see how identical men are despite cultural differences (...), what irritates me is the lack of confidence in the creativity of citizens...". Charlotte AWOULEBE and Oreda Zerroucki, present in the audience give their views on the candidate.

Presidential: women candidates

Corinne LEPAGE, presidential candidate, begins her electoral campaign in Brittany. This is her first election. Interviewed on her candidacy, she gives the main orientations of her program: "...protection, the fight against risk, the state of justice, decide otherwise (...) live better together and give dynamism to this country...".

Presidential: women candidates

During his electoral campaign for the 1995 presidential election, Dominique VOYNET, ecologist candidate for Les Verts, goes to La Hague (Manche). On the outskirts of the COGEMA nuclear waste reprocessing plant, she recalls her desire to get out of nuclear power and prepare France’s energy future by developing renewable energy sources that also create jobs.

Presidential: women candidates

En répondant à la question de Julien Besançon "Songeriez vous vous-même à vous lancer dans la bataille politique ?" Marie-France Garaud finit par annoncer solennellement sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle de 1981 : "Oui je suis candidate. J'ai mesuré les risques et les difficultés...mais je crois que je dois le faire. Je pense que c'est nécessaire pour défendre les idées auxquelles je crois..." Elle dénonce au passage le manque de courage de ses collègues hommes dans l'engagement politique.

Presidential: women candidates

Statement of Arlette LAGUILLER as the first woman "daring" to run for the presidency of the French Republic.