(FILES) This file photo taken on June 01, 2016 shows presidential candidate of the left-wing Lutte Ouvriere party Nathalie Arthaud posing for a photograph in Paris. Eleven candidates have been approved to run for French president, the country's Constitutional Council announced on March 18, 2017, a month before the vote. The eleven received the 500-plus signatures from mayors needed to compete in the first round of the election on April 23, the council's president Laurent Fabius said. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET