Tractor-driving ‘son of the soil’ has run for president three times and maintains solid ties to south-west France where he grew up
. A tractor-driving “son of the soil” and breeder of thoroughbreds, he has run for president three times, saying his rural roots and centrist politics led him to try to find common ground between left and right.
He grew up in the small village of Bordères, between the Catholic pilgrimage shrine of Lourdes and Nay, the birthplace of the beret. A Catholic and father of six, he still has a home in the village and is mayor of the south-western city of Pau, 20km away.
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