He should not have been a candidate: the NPA has a rule of limiting presidential candidates to two per person.
But apart from Olivier Besancenot, who applied twice, who could the New Anti-Capitalist Party send?
Having become a politician, Philippe Poutou lost his bet: he collected only 0.7% of the vote,
according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for Le Parisien, France Télévisions and Radio France, on the evening of this first round.
In 2017, Poutou obtained 1.09% of the votes cast in the first round, almost as much as his 1.15% in 2012.
Five years ago, the worker from the Ford factory in Blanquefort (Gironde), now unemployed, had repeatedly marked the countryside with his well-shot arrows, sometimes arousing sympathy, sometimes mockery, in particular from Marion Maréchal-Le Pen who had criticized him for debating "in pajamas".
But this year, the funny campaign did not allow him to make his place, for lack of debates at twelve.
A regret for the small candidate, who could not make his proposals heard in favor of all social struggles and against the "organized gang robbery of billionaires".
Happier locally, Philippe Poutou obtained in 2020, at the head of a list supported by yellow vests and La France insoumise, 11.8% in the first round of municipal elections in Bordeaux, which earned him to be a municipal councilor and metropolitain of the beautiful Girondine.