Nathalie Arthaud

Nathalie Arthaud is a French secondary school (lycée) economics teacher and politician. Since 2008, she has served as the spokesperson for the Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle), a socialist party, and has stood for election under the party multiple times, beginning in 2001. She was the party's candidate in the 2012 and 2017 presidential elections. A self-proclaimed communist, she focused her campaigns on workers' and economic issues; her platform included positions such as increasing the minimum wage, ending evictions and mass layoffs, and nationalizing French financial institutions. She received 0.56 and 0.64 percent of the votes cast and placed in ninth and tenth place in the 2012 and 2017 elections, respectively. In 2019, Arthaud also headed the list of the Workers' Struggle nominees for European Parliament; the party received 0.78 percent of all votes cast. Arthaud is currently running as the Workers' Struggle nominee in the 2022 French presidential election, having won the party's nomination at their 2020 convention.