In 2017, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate obtained 0.64% of the vote.
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She remains at the same level as during her first two candidacies, where she respectively obtained 0.56% of the vote in 2012 and 0.64% of the vote in 2017. This time, Nathalie Arthaud obtained 0.56% of the vote and won the last place of the twelve candidates in the first round of the presidential election, Sunday April 10, according to the final results communicated by the Ministry of the Interior.
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A candidacy without illusions but assumed
The candidate of Lutte Ouvrière, who succeeded the media Arlette Laguiller, has never hidden that she was not seeking to become President of the Republic, but that she wanted to carry the voice of the workers. “Throughout this campaign, my interviewers have asked me what I was doing in this election, given that the polls give me less than 1%, but also because I assume that I am not seeking to be President of the Republic. “had launched this professor of economics, during her meeting at the Zénith de Paris, Sunday, April 3.
Nathalie Arthaud fights against capitalism, according to the watchword of her party. “Why vote for me? Because we must affirm the need to fight and overthrow capitalism”, she said at the meeting. The latter had, on this occasion, ruled out the idea of a “useful vote on the left” : “It can hurt because the world of work always wakes up from its electoral illusions with a hangover.”