Olivier Faure distances himself from Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The leader of the Insoumis “intends to be a presidential candidate” in 2027, “but he cannot be the candidate of the entire left”, said this Saturday in an interview with West France the first secretary of the PS.
“To be in the second round in 2027, we will have to present a personality who brings together all the sensitivities of the ecological and social left. And Jean-Luc Mélenchon has done everything not to be that candidate,” adds the deputy for Seine- et-Marne.
Olivier Faure pleads for “a common candidate from the left and environmentalists”, who could be chosen via “a primary, a council of wise men, a citizens’ convention, a mixture of several processes”. Because “going to the presidential election with two, three, four or five left-wing candidates in the first round is the assurance of having a second round which will pit the right against the extreme right”, and “if the left was absent from the second round in 2027, for the fourth time in 25 years, it is not unimaginable that it would then experience its own disappearance”, he dramatizes.
If the PS, the PCF and the ecologists formed an alliance with LFI for the early legislative elections, the three parties were opposed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon being their candidate for Matignon.