After the statements of the five -time Olympic champion on its presidential ambitions, an Interactive Harris investigation indicates that judoka has high electoral potential with LFI voters.
Teddy Riner at the Élysée? The 36 -year -old French Judo star has sowed doubt in recent weeks, between seriousness and jokes, on possible political aspirations, ensuring that one position could try it, president. “Often I am told” we would see you Minister of Sports “. But why always reduce the sportsman to sport? If tomorrow I would go into politics it would not be to be Minister of Sports ”. “Of course”had he replied when he was asked if it would be to be president of the Republic.
Even if he had assured that it did not interest him “no way” Currently, he had repeated: “When we do politics, is the champion which one?” He is the president. Sport taught me to overcome any mountain: it doesn’t matter what to me, I will work to be the best. And I don’t have a too large mountain. If tomorrow I want to get started, then I will do what it takes. ” A recent Harris Interactive survey carried out by Commstrat and L’Opinion was interested in the chances of a 2027 presidential candidacy of the five -time Olympic champion.
Ahead of Mélenchon and Wauquiez
To the question “If the next presidential election in France took place this Sunday, could you vote for each of the following personalities?”18 % of respondents responded with the positive in the name of Teddy Riner. A score that places him, according to the same survey, in front of other heavy goods vehicles in the French political landscape. If the Guadeloupean finishes far behind the duo of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella (39%) and Marine Le Pen (38%), who truses the head of this survey, the star of the TatamiS is ahead of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Laurent Wauquiez (16%each), and is equal to Eric Zemmour and Bernard Cazeneuve. It is just below two former presidents, François Hollande (19%) and Nicolas Sarkozy (20%).
In recent weeks, beyond its allusions to its political desires, the judoka had given a decided opinion on the violence observed after the victory of PSG in the Champions League against Inter Milan (5-0) on May 31. To the question of whether the overflows would have taken place if he had been in the government, he had answered with a dash of humor: “Do me minister?” And why don’t you say “do you, president?” “. Before resuming, more serious: “It would certainly not have happened like that. I think security in France is an important point. If one day I should (be a candidate), of course, it would be an important point in my program. ”
According to the survey published this Thursday, Teddy Riner, who appeared with an independence flag when he arrived in Guadeloupe after his triumph at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games last summer, mainly attracted an electorate close to rebellious France (LFI). Conversely, the sympathizers of the Republicans (LR) and the National Rally (RN) do not position judoka at the 11 world titles in their Top 10. Grand Absent from the Worlds of Budapest, where Joan-Benjamin Gaba shone, Teddy Riner should return to competition after summer, when he has still not resumed competition individually since his two gold medals in Paris and team).
