Clémentine Autain aims at the Élysée. The deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Said Wednesday ready to be a candidate in a process of appointing a candidate of union of the left for the 2027 presidential election.
“I will undoubtedly be, if we have a common approach, candidate to represent the whole left, with the left and environmentalists,” said the former rebellious slinger and member of the new party after the radio Here Drôme Ardèche.
A fervent defender of the Union of the Left, Clémentine Autain relies in particular on A Harris Interactive survey Published Wednesday according to which a candidate supported by LFI, the PS, the environmentalists, the PCF and the other left parties would achieve a score of 26 % in the first round of the presidential election, enough to qualify in the second round to face the extreme right.
An impossible union?
Another large Unionist figure for 2027, the patron of ecologists Marine Tondelier relayed this survey on its X account by challenging the other forces of the new Popular Front: “Remember this survey. United, the left accesses the second round. Our electorate asks him, so what are we waiting for? ».
But the two main left forces, the best socialist and rebellious enemies are not favorable to such a union. The rebellious people want to submit their own candidacy and hope that other parties will be able to support it. Socialists have acted with LFI.
The first secretary of PS Olivier Faure, in the campaign for his re -election at the head of the party, wants for 2027 “a joint candidacy which brings together the left and the environmentalists of François Ruffin to Raphaël Glucksmann”.
At the beginning of April, deputy François Ruffin, who also broken with rebellious Franceduring the 2024 legislative elections, said have “legitimacy to represent the left in the presidential election “, since it” is twenty-five years old “that he travels through France. He said he was “determined”.
