Manuel Bompard

He belongs to La France insoumise (LFI), a left-wing party, and has coordinated it nationally since 2022. He has been a deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône since 2022 and was a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022. He is named in the race on who reaches the second round of the 2027 French presidential election.

Career

Bompard graduated from the Ensimag engineering school and earned a doctorate in applied mathematics at Nice-Sophia-Antipolis University in 2011, and co-founded the AI start-up Adagos. He joined the Left Party at its founding in 2009, became its national secretary in 2010 and directed Jean-Luc Mélenchon's 2017 presidential campaign. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2019, sitting until 2022. He won the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône in 2022 with 73.92% of the vote and again in 2024 with 67.49%. He has been LFI's national coordinator since December 2022.

Positions

Bompard belongs to LFI, which Wikipedia places on the left. Wikipedia and French media describe Mélenchon as the movement's de facto leader. On 3 April 2026 Bompard proposed a new popular alliance of LFI, the Greens and the Communists to pick a 2027 candidate, which Fabien Roussel and Marine Tondelier rejected, according to Elyseescope. When Mélenchon declared his fourth presidential candidacy on 3 May 2026, LCP reported that Bompard appeared beside him as one of four deputies presented as the faces of a future government.

Controversies

Following the October 2018 search of LFI's headquarters, prosecutors tried Bompard, Mélenchon and others for rebellion and intimidation, and in September 2019 asked for fines of 8,000 euros each, according to Public Sénat. French Wikipedia and Sud Radio report that he was fined 7,000 euros on 9 December 2019. The sources I read do not mention an appeal. Sud Radio also reports that he was among the targets of threats from far-right groups, including a package bomb sent in October 2025.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia (English) · Wikipédia (français) · Sud Radio · Public Sénat · LCP

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