Clémentine Autain

She is a regional councillor in Île-de-France and co-edits the magazine Regards. She was named in the France United Left Primary race for the 2027 presidential election and renounced any candidacy in July 2026.

Career

Autain co-founded the feminist organisation Mix-Cité in 1997. She served as a Paris city councillor for the 17th arrondissement and as deputy mayor of Paris for youth affairs from 2001 to 2008. She was a municipal councillor in Sevran from 2014 to 2015 and an Île-de-France regional councillor from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2021. She has been a member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis since June 2017. Her party affiliations ran from the Communist Party, which she left in 2008, through Ensemble! and La France Insoumise (2016 to 2024) to L'Après since 2024.

Positions

Wikipedia describes Autain as a left-wing figure and notes she is co-secretary of the Fondation Copernic, a think tank described there as critical of liberalism. She is known for feminist activism. In 2026 she took part in the effort to organise an open primary of the left and the environmentalists, set for 11 October 2026, and in July 2026 she rejected the pile-up of candidacies on the left, according to ÉlyséeScope and LCP reporting.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · LCP · ÉlyséeScope

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