The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself relaunched speculation on Wednesday around the next presidential election, seeming to dub, in a tweet, the free electron François Ruffin.
“François is ready. Forward!”, tweeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, thanks to a survey of “electoral potential” flattering for the deputy of the Somme.
According to a Cluster 17 study for Le Point, if the presidential election took place tomorrow, 39% of those questioned consider their vote “probable” or “possible” for Marine Le Pen, who comes first.
Behind, Edouard Philippe (25% of electoral potential), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (24%), Jordan Bardella (23%) and François Ruffin (21%) stand in respect, while the margin of error is two points .
“Magnificent Cluster survey. François Ruffin and I have passed the 20% mark”, enthused Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“All the work done over the past year has not been lost in the sand of the permanent bashing (“denigration”, Ed) against me. François is ready. Forward!”, Continues the leader of the Insoumis, seeming to push the deputy from the Somme on the way to the presidential election, in which Mr. Mélenchon competed three times.
This is the first time that Jean-Luc Mélenchon openly evokes this track. But his tweet aroused little political reaction on Wednesday at the end of the day.
The leader of the Insoumis, who came third in the last presidential election (22%), indicated in January that he was “not a candidate” for his succession to represent insubordinate France in the 2027 presidential election, while allowing for the possibility that future “circumstances” decide otherwise.
To succeed him, the 71-year-old tribune believed that “if someone succeeds in being loved, in emulation rather than competition, then it will come on its own” for the choice of the candidate.
François Ruffin, 47, is one of the personalities whose names are circulating, within LFI and more broadly within the left, as potential presidential candidates for 2027. At the PS, the PCF or among environmentalists, his evocation does not does not cringe, and can be an asset for a single candidacy of the Nupes.
“François for the left? This time must be the right time for the French!”, tweeted the ecologist deputy Aurélien Taché, calling for Nupes to have only “one candidate”.
“I don’t think about it in the morning while shaving or running”, Mr. Ruffin assured in February in an interview with the online media Konbini, “but I know that there is a duty today to represent the nation’s most invisible”.
“They need to be carried by a voice of hope which is on the left”, he continued, specifying: “if one day I have to embody that, I will do it”.
Regularly since the end of the presidential election, the one who is considered a free electron within the LFI group in the Assembly, explains that the left cannot win if it does not take into account the concerns and the way of speaking of the classes rural people.
He also distanced himself from the heated debates in the Assembly during the pension reform, caused in particular by LFI. “We have a duty to be up to the people, (those) who are outside by the millions and with whom there are no clashes”, explained the one who was one of the LFI leaders during debates, and took part in numerous Nupes meetings.
He is also one of the personalities who recently criticized the lack of internal democracy within the rebellious movement and had wished to integrate its management, without success.
Among the other names circulating for a possible candidacy in 2027, there is also the deputy Clémentine Autain, she also criticized the functioning of LFI.
François Ruffin is at the head of the micro-party “Picardie Debout”, and created his association of financing, “At the end it is us that we are going to win”, one of his favorite slogans, which regularly concludes its meetings.
04/12/2023 17:23:41 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP