Overview
- About 500 local elected officials published a tribune in La Tribune Dimanche calling on former prime minister Gabriel Attal to enter the 2027 presidential race.
- Notable signers include Renaud Muselier, Thomas Cazenave, Antoine Armand, Franck Riester, and Lozère departmental president Laurent Suau.
- Attal has not declared his candidacy yet is stepping up travel and will hold a Paris meeting on May 30 after releasing a book in April.
- The roughly 500 signatures echo the 500 endorsements candidates must collect to qualify, and Attal’s team says more names will join.
- Polling places Édouard Philippe ahead within the centrist bloc, and regional lists show thinner support for Attal in Nord–Pas-de-Calais.