2027 Presidential Election: MP François Ruffin calls for a left-wing primary and claims he will win it

According to the MP speaking in "Libération", the scope of this primary should be that of the NFP: "from Philippe Poutou to François Hollande".

He is not leaving as a defeatist, quite the contrary. MP François Ruffin calls, in Libération , for a left-wing primary , "from Poutou to Hollande" , for the 2027 presidential election, stating that he will participate and win. "We need a primary, a geyser primary, which is not just a tiebreaker election, but a moment of overflow", declares the MP who broke with LFI during the last legislative elections, and now sits within the ecologist group.

The elected representative from the Somme announced his intention to run for office. "And I will win," he promised, recalling that he had beaten the National Rally "three times" "in working-class areas. " "I speak for the working world, the ordinary people who keep the country standing," he justified. Having initiated the idea of ​​the New Popular Front in the legislative elections to unite the left, the deputy recalled that in one month there were "9 million voters." "We could give them back their voice, couldn't we? It's either the primary strategy or the depressing strategy," he asserted.

The MP believes that it is "the parties, a priori," who should organize this primary. "It would be better with them. Will they all say yes tomorrow morning? Probably not. But within each of them, there are unitarians against identitarians. In any case, this primary will take place." As for the calendar, he recommends "candidates in April 2026 and a vote in the fall," for "a two-round election, modeled on the presidential election."

He also details the criteria for candidacy: "100,000 citizen endorsements, 250 from mayors. Ten ideas, as a statement of faith." He suggests "a physical vote, with one polling station per canton," with a target of "2 to 3 million voters." For him, the rebels and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are welcome in this primary, whose scope must be that of the NFP: "from Philippe Poutou to François Hollande. It's up to them to choose whether or not to participate."

As for the possibility of Jean-Luc Mélenchon running without going through the primary, he believes that "it's all a question of balance of power. A candidate legitimized by millions of voters disrupts the calculations." Asked whether he would support the winner, whoever it was, including François Hollande or Raphaël Glucksmann, he said he couldn't imagine "participating in such an election without then respecting the rules."