2027 Presidential Election: The “Popular Front” launches a primary that doesn’t say its name

We're taking the same people, or almost, and starting again... A little over a year after the birth of the New Popular Front (NFP), the brass of the left-wing and green parties met this Wednesday, July 2, in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine). A meeting—without La France insoumise, Place publique, or the Communist Party—organized at the initiative of Lucie Castets, the NFP candidate for Matignon in 2024 who has since become the Don Quixote of the left-wing union. Around her, around twenty socialist, green, and former unsubmissive leaders, including Olivier Faure, Marine Tondelier, Clémentine Autain, and François Ruffin. All putative candidates for the 2027 presidential election.

A day as "a starting point" , believes the socialist Johanna Rolland, mayor of Nantes and close to the first secretary of the PS. "It's the first time that these personalities have expressed, at the same time and in the same place, their desire to work on a joint project and the designation of a joint candidacy," she explains. "It's better to say it, of course, but it's better to say it together above all!"

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