2027 Presidential Election: Ruffin lays the foundations for a "geyser" primary on the left, certain "that he will win it"
The Somme representative has announced his intention to run in the next election for the head of the executive branch, using a primary modelled on the presidential election system.
By Ronan Tésorière with AFPRuffin Jupiterian? MP François Ruffin calls, in Libération , for a left-wing primary, "from Poutou to Ruffin", for the 2027 presidential election, affirming that he will participate, and "that he will win it".
"We need a primary, a geyser primary, which is not just a tiebreaker election, but a moment of overflow," declared the MP, who broke with LFI during the last legislative elections and now sits within the Green group.
The Somme representative announced his intention to run there , something he had already mentioned. "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.
On X, the ex-LFI MP added a few words of his own. "What dominates the country today, and even worse on the left, is despondency and discouragement. So, my only question is: How do we bring out the energy? " François Ruffin wondered aloud.
"It's a constant in my career: I'm like a dowser, with his stick, groping, looking for the trigger, Merci Patron!, Nuit Debout, the Macron party, and last year, on the evening of the dissolution, Front populaire... Millions of people recognized themselves there, hundreds of thousands signed a petition, with demonstrations... A pressure that forced unity! And in one month, nine million voters: we could give them back their voice, couldn't we?", he said.
Having initiated the idea of the New Popular Front in the legislative elections to unite the left, the MP points out that in one month there were "nine million voters." "It's either the primary strategy or the depressing strategy," he asserts.
The MP believes that it's "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 versus identitarians. In any case, this primary will take place."
Regarding the calendar, he recommends "applications 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 also 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 enter."
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 whoever the winner was, including François Hollande or Raphaël Glucksmann, he said he could not imagine "taking part in such an election without then respecting the rules."
Le Parisien
