This is the stated objective of most left-wing and environmentalist parties: to present a single candidacy for the 2027 presidential election. But there are many obstacles between the central question of the candidate, the difficulties in uniting for the polls that are announced between now and the presidential election and the ideological differences. Unless the outcome lies outside the parties?
What if a civil society application was THE solution? Socialist MP Arthur Delaporte recognizes this: “ Apart from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Nupes has no strong incarnation figure for a single application. ” It’s easier to find the lowest common denominator outside of politics, but you need notoriety “, Continues the socialist spokesperson.
The Laurent Berger hypothesis
In recent weeks, the name of Laurent Berger has rustled in the ranks of the left. The future ex-boss of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT) showed during the battle for pensions that it had leadership and the ability to bring unions with stormy relations to dialogue and work together. And his desire to continue to act after his mandate sharpens attention, especially among the dissident socialists of Nupes. But Laurent Berger repeats it, he has no political ambition and even less presidential.
A wise decision according to Green MEP David Cormand, for whom ” if there is one election where you should not appeal to a candidacy from civil society, it is the presidential one “, from his point of view cut for political tenors. Bring up “ an approximate candidacy to counter Mélenchon would create a problem to solve another. ” And then ” it’s fake ass “, creaks a communist executive, in reality all the parties want the single candidacy to come from their ranks.
A problem with no solution ?
” It is a matter of political culture “, deplores a socialist deputy, “on is soaked in 5th Republic and its monarchical functioning. And to propose another operating software, “ a dream team » which she compares to a « stool “: each party corresponds to a foot, ” but above it is flat, no one exceeds “, which requires a candidate ” able to play this collective game » and who would not say to others « to execute “. In short, the rare bird in the aviary of the disproportionate egos of political personnel.
To avoid a pitched battle, some in the Nupes are campaigning to first settle the question of the common program, before a coalition agreement and only then the designation of the champion of the left and the ecologists. Prerequisites on which we will have to move forward quickly, judge a senior leader of the PS. ” If we are not there at the end of 2025, beginning of 2026, it will be complicated “, he predicts.