Nathalie Arthaud | |
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_19-05-2024.jpg) Nathalie Arthaud in 2024 | |
| Spokesperson of Workers' Struggle | |
| Assumed office 8 December 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Arlette Laguiller |
| Member of the Municipal council of Vaulx-en-Velin | |
| In office 2008–2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nathalie Yvonne Thérèse Arthaud 23 February 1970 Peyrins, Drôme, France |
| Political party | Lutte Ouvrière |
| Profession | Teacher |
Nathalie Yvonne Thérèse Arthaud (French pronunciation: [natali ivɔn teʁɛz aʁto]; born 23 February 1970) 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 communist party, and has stood for election under the party multiple times, beginning in 2001.
She was the party's candidate in the 2012, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. She received 0.56, 0.64 an 0.57 percent of the votes cast and placed in ninth, tenth and twelfth place, respectively.[1] 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. 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.
- ^ "Résultats de l'élection présidentielle 2022 : Macron et Le Pen au second tour, Mélenchon en arbitre, et derrière, un chaos politique". Le Monde.fr (in French). 11 April 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2022.