[6][3][7] When the 1973 oil crisis hit, their father, a technician, lost his job and the family moved to the Villeneuve-la-Garenne area of Paris;[4][7][5] his parents divorced not long after.
[6] By the time he turned 19, he was the president of the local House of Youth and Culture (MJC), which organized tutoring and summer camps for foster (DDASS) children.
[8][3] In 2015, Poisson announced he would be running in the Republican primaries ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, which he qualified for as president of the Christian Democratic Party without having to gain voter support first.
[25][26] Shortly after, Yann Barthès made a comment on his news show ‘’Quotidien’’ encouraging his audience to register for the Lovers of France with false information.
[27][28][20] He also believes French citizens should be able to decide what kind and how much social assistance foreign nationals receive, and that immigrants should not have access to state medical care.
[29] He does not support the regime itself but trusts that a partnership will better protect and strengthen both countries, and that Syria is “the key to the Middle East.” [30][7][29] He has expressed interest in a treaty with Vladimir Putin and Russia to fight terrorism as well.
[20][7] He voted “no” to the Maastricht Treaty and still believes the EU should be dissolved and that French borders should be closed; he also wants to renegotiate the terms of the Schengen Agreement.
[13][27][32] He even calls for a global ban on surrogates, claiming that women would become commodified and that surrogacy is already “a form of modern slavery.”[33][4][32] He has stated that same-sex couples want to adopt just in the name of equality; he does not believe that a child without both a mother and father has a complete family.
[13] He is active in anti marriage equality movements such as the Manif Pour Tous and has attended demonstrations calling for the repeal of Christiane Taubira’s 2013 Law 2013-404, which enabled same-sex couples to marry and to adopt.
[13][20][35][36] Though he appears to support the equality of men and women, he has been accused of sexism after telling Le Figaro that he considers female colleagues “part of the feast” when legislation is held in a hemicycle.
[27] He wants France to dictate to Muslims what the country expects "in exchange for the guarantee of their rights, their dignity and the decency of the conditions of practice of their faith.
"[37] Dismissal from the Republican primaries was briefly discussed and he apologized, saying he did not mean any offense and that he wanted to "reiterate here all the friendships I have for the state of Israel and for the Jewish people as a whole.
[28][7] In 2016/2017, Poisson supported François Fillon in the French elections and Donald Trump in the American elections; he endorsed Trump again in 2020 and referred to him as someone who “invites us to take destiny in hand.” [38][39][21] He has voiced sympathies for the National Rally;,[36] would have voted for conservative Béziers mayor Robert Ménard had he been in the voting constituency; and said that, if Éric Zemmour made support of the “weakest” a more central part of his platform, then he would withdraw from the presidential race to make way for Zemmour’s victory.
[41] Poisson is very critical of France’s actions during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine periods; he claimed they would not work, and incorrectly argued that more than 850 people have died due to the COVID vaccine.
[43] He accused the government of “kill[ing] the country” and argued that people were developing more psychiatric disorders, experiencing more mental distress, and struggling with inaccessible autonomy during the pandemic.
[27][4][2] In terms of medicine, Poisson is opposed to healthcare that rewards those who have a healthy lifestyle and/or penalize those who don't; he calls this idea Orwellian and thinks it would eventually evolve into the government having full control over life choices.