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Républicains.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) • [2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers) He is president of the think tank Institut Valmy.[3](https://www.latribune.fr/article/la-tribune-dimanche/opinions/21095631758665/opinion-la-troisieme-voie-economique-est-elle-encore-possible-par-julien-aubert-president-de-l-institut-valmy)\n\n| Fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Party | Les Républicains[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) |\n| Current office | President of Oser la France[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) |\n| Previous offices | Deputy for Vaucluse; Vice-president of Les Républicains[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) • [2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers) |\n| Education | Graduate of the École nationale d'administration, from the same class as Emmanuel Macron and Boris Vallaud[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) |\n\n## Party affiliation\n\nAubert is a member of Les Républicains.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) Within the party he has served as vice-president.[2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers) He leads Oser la France, a movement he has presided over, which sits within the party's broader current.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/)\n\n## Early life and education\n\nAubert is a graduate of the [École nationale d'administration](https://www.edgepedia.org/ecole-nationale-dadministration) and came from the same class as [Emmanuel Macron](https://www.edgepedia.org/emmanuel-macron) and [Boris Vallaud](https://www.edgepedia.org/boris-vallaud).[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795)\n\n## Career\n\nAubert has served as a deputy for Vaucluse.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) He presides over Oser la France, a movement whose territorial network is organized around departmental coordinators, elected departmental spokespeople, and ideas referents working with the movement's scientific committee; its National Council, the movement's political decision-making body, brings together 216 national councilors, including sitting and former parliamentarians.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) • [5](https://oserlafrance.fr/mouvement/)\n\nAubert has also served as vice-president of Les Républicains.[2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers) In that capacity he appeared on RFI's Invité politique program on April 29, 2026, to discuss the party's position on taxing oil companies' windfall profits during the Middle East conflict.[2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers)\n\nHe produces economic policy work through the Institut Valmy, a think tank of which he is president, including a note on work written with the economist Nicolas Baaklini.[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) • [3](https://www.latribune.fr/article/la-tribune-dimanche/opinions/21095631758665/opinion-la-troisieme-voie-economique-est-elle-encore-possible-par-julien-aubert-president-de-l-institut-valmy)\n\n## Issues specific to Aubert\n\nAubert is known for his advocacy of what he calls a \"troisième voie\" (third way) in economic policy, developed through the Institut Valmy and distinguished from the economic orientations defended on the right by [David Lisnard](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-lisnard) and by the former Les Républicains leader [Éric Ciotti](https://www.edgepedia.org/eric-ciotti).[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) In a tribune in La Tribune Dimanche, he wrote that the third way is not a tepid compromise between neoliberalism and socialism, describing it in his own words: \"C'est un projet de puissance, libéral, protectionniste et réaliste, qui pose une question simple : comment remettre le capital au service du temps long, le marché au service de la production, et la croissance au service de ceux qui la créent ?\" (Edgepedia translation: \"It is a project of power, liberal, protectionist and realistic, which asks a simple question: how to put capital back at the service of the long term, the market at the service of production, and growth at the service of those who create it?\").[3](https://www.latribune.fr/article/la-tribune-dimanche/opinions/21095631758665/opinion-la-troisieme-voie-economique-est-elle-encore-possible-par-julien-aubert-president-de-l-institut-valmy)\n\nThrough Oser la France, Aubert has taken positions on European and institutional questions. After members of the [European Parliament](https://www.edgepedia.org/european-parliament) voted to set in motion a sanction process against Hungary, Aubert and the Oser la France collective published a tribune in FigaroVox stating that the process raised ambiguities and a lack of legitimacy on the part of the European Parliament, and that in their view the decision threatened the fragmentation of Europe.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) He has also called for an Europe of sovereign nations, writing in a message as president of Oser la France: \"Il y a trois ans disparaissait un grand gaulliste, Charles Pasqua, défendeur de l'Europe des Nations. Les héritiers de Pasqua et Seguin sont toujours là !\" (Edgepedia translation: \"Three years ago a great Gaullist disappeared, Charles Pasqua, defender of the Europe of Nations. The heirs of Pasqua and Séguin are still here!\").[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) On the Canada-European Union trade agreement, he published a piece asking whether validating CETA amounted to a passport for transgenic salmon.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/)\n\n## Positions and voting record\n\n### Economic policy\n\nAubert argues that deficit reduction alone does not amount to a political project. In an interview with Challenges, he said: \"La réduction des déficits peut être nécessaire, mais elle ne fait pas un projet politique\" (Edgepedia translation: \"Reducing deficits can be necessary, but it does not make a political project\").[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) In the note produced with Nicolas Baaklini for the Institut Valmy, he proposes what he calls a third way in matters of work that would be \"ni strictement néolibérale ni purement étatique\" (Edgepedia translation: \"neither strictly neoliberal nor purely statist\").[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) Its most structural proposal is the creation of a sovereign fund to mobilize long-term savings and support strategic sectors of the economy; the note also proposes arrangements for business succession, organizing a progressive handover between a retiring business owner and a younger buyer.[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795) On work, he has said that new generations aspire to work better and sometimes to work less, rather than to work more to earn more.[4](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795)\n\n### Energy\n\nSpeaking on RFI on April 29, 2026, amid a fuel shortage risk in France as the Middle East conflict entered its third month, Aubert said the risk \"n'est pas écarté\" (Edgepedia translation: \"is not ruled out\"), and predicted \"un choc majeur\" (Edgepedia translation: \"a major shock\") if the conflict were to drag on, causing a crisis of the real economy extending to the property, stock market, and financial sectors.[2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers) He said he favors taxing oil companies' windfall profits \"en cas de spéculation avérée\" (Edgepedia translation: \"in the event of proven speculation\"), and called for reflection on more structural solutions, notably exploring France's deposits of shale gas and shale oil.[2](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers)\n\n### Globalization and sovereignty\n\nOn his movement's foreign affairs page, Aubert argues that the right must dare to assess neoliberal globalization. In a tribune he wrote: \"La France a joué le jeu de la mondialisation. Elle se retrouve aujourd'hui désarmée\" (Edgepedia translation: \"France played by the rules of globalization. It now finds itself disarmed\").[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/) He argues that a modern liberal policy is possible provided that the state is strong and recovers its means, and that Gaullism is not a nostalgia implying fights of another era.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/)\n\n### Institutions\n\nSixty years after the beginnings of the Fifth Republic, Aubert, as president of Oser la France and deputy for Vaucluse, signed with 21 other elected officials a tribune calling for a return to the original principles of the constitution, including a long mandate, following a grand debate at Caromb on taxation and public spending.[1](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Oser la France – Affaires étrangères](https://oserlafrance.fr/affaires-etrangeres/)\n2. [RFI – Julien Aubert, des Républicains, d'accord pour taxer les superprofits spéculatifs des pétroliers](https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-politique/20260429-julien-aubert-des-r%C3%A9publicains-d-accord-pour-taxer-les-superprofits-sp%C3%A9culatifs-des-p%C3%A9troliers)\n3. [La Tribune – La troisième voie économique est-elle encore possible ?, par Julien Aubert](https://www.latribune.fr/article/la-tribune-dimanche/opinions/21095631758665/opinion-la-troisieme-voie-economique-est-elle-encore-possible-par-julien-aubert-president-de-l-institut-valmy)\n4. [Challenges – Julien Aubert, vice-président LR, trace une troisième voie face à Lisnard et Ciotti](https://www.challenges.fr/politique/reduire-les-deficits-ne-fait-pas-un-projet-julien-aubert-vice-president-lr-trace-une-troisieme-voie-face-a-lisnard-et-ciotti_642795)\n5. 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