“You Have to Be Strong at the Core”: Presidential Candidates Face the Challenge of Physical and Mental Endurance
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- France’s 2027 presidential campaign is expected to last more than seven months, creating demanding physical and psychological pressures for candidates.
- Green party leader Marine Tondelier faces the campaign while expecting to give birth in late September, and says she is focusing on recovery, sleep and stress management.
- Tondelier has replaced running with prenatal yoga during pregnancy and uses a mental-preparation coach to manage the campaign’s pace.
Marine Tondelier faces an unprecedented challenge under France’s Fifth Republic: running for president while preparing to give birth. The Green party national secretary is due to deliver in late September, while the presidential vote is scheduled for April 18 and May 2, 2027.
The key is to manage your recovery and your sleep well.
The two commitments will require her to protect her health and control her stress. “The key is to manage your recovery and your sleep well,” Tondelier said. The representative from Hénin-Beaumont, in the Pas-de-Calais, usually runs to regulate her anxiety. During pregnancy, she has turned instead to prenatal yoga.
The campaign will also demand constant travel, media appearances and political meetings. To sustain that pace, Tondelier has hired a mental-preparation coach, following an approach used by elite athletes. The aim, she said, is to stay “focused on the right things at the right time.”
focused on the right things at the right time
Otherwise, she added, “you can’t keep going over the long term.” The article presents her experience as an especially striking example of the broader physical and mental endurance required from candidates during a campaign lasting more than seven months.
you can’t keep going over the long term.
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Originally published by Le Figaro in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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