French judoka Teddy Riner has announced his candidacy for the 2027 French presidential election. "I'm running to show that France can bounce back," the 37-year-old Olympic champion said in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien.
Describing himself as "neither right nor left," Riner aspires to become a "uniting president" in a campaign currently dominated by far-right and far-left forces: Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Insoumise.
(Unioneonline)
