Jacques Cheminade

Solidarity and Progress

Age: 75

Party: Solidarity and Progress

This is his third presidential run. In 2012 he came in tenth (last), with 0.25 percent of the vote.



Foreign spy? He was strongly influenced during a trip to New York in 1974 by Lyndon LaRouche, the founder of the US Labor Party who was known for his conspiracy theories. The FBI took an interest in Cheminade because of his relationship with LaRouche and described him in a document as a foreign spy in the service of LaRouche.



Different class. Difficult to place on the political chessboard, he highlights his fight against “financial occupation” which, according to him, is represented by Wall Street, the City of London, Brussels and the IMF.



Sea changer. According to him, the sea is the next frontier for humanity. “It’s there where almost everything remains to be explored, where everything can be rethought and redone.”