Jupiterian Ruffin? MP François Ruffin calls, in Libérationto a primary of the left, “from Poutou to Ruffin”, for the presidential election of 2027, claiming that he will participate, and “that he will win it”.
“We need a primary, a geyser primary, which is not just a departure election, but a moment of overflow,” said the deputy who broke with LFI during the last legislative elections, and now sits within the environmental group.
The elected official of the sum announces his intention to be a candidatewhat he had already mentioned. “And I will win,” he promises, recalling that he has “three times” defeated the national rally “in working lands”. “I speak for the world of work, the ordinary people who hold the standing country,” he justifies.
“I am like a dowser”
On X, the ex-LFI deputy added some elements of language. “What dominates today in the country, and even worse on the left, is the abatement, discouragement. So, my only question is: How do we bring up the energy? “Asks François Ruffin out loud.
I am going to the point: yes, we will need a primary, a geyser primary, an overflow primary.
What dominates, today, in the country, and even worse on the left, is the allowance, discouragement. So, my only question is: how we bring up the energy … pic.twitter.com/GkqcOMZH2t
— François Ruffin (@Francois_Ruffin) May 20, 2025
“It is constant in my journey: I am like a dowser, with its stick, who gropes, who is looking for the trigger, thank you boss !, Night standing, the party in Macron, and last year, on the evening of dissolution, the popular front … Millions of people recognized themselves, hundreds of thousands signed a petition, with demonstrations … A pressure that forced the union! And in a month, nine million voters: we could speak to them, right? “He said.
“It is either the primary strategy or the depressing strategy”
At the initiative of the idea of the new Popular Front in the legislative elections to bring the left together, the deputy recalls that in a month there have been “nine million voters”. “It is either the primary strategy or the depressing strategy,” he asserts.
The deputy considers that it is “the parties, a priori”, who must organize this primary. “It would be better with them. Will they all say yes tomorrow morning? Probably not. But there are, within everyone, uniters against identities. Anyway, this primary will take place. »»
For the calendar, he advocated “candidates in April 2026 and a vote in the fall”, for “an election with two laps, on the presidential model”. It also details the criteria to apply: “100,000 citizen sponsorships, 250 mayors. Ten ideas, as a profession of faith ”. And suggests “a physical vote, with a polling station by canton”, for an objective of “2 to 3 million voters”.
For him, the rebellious and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are welcome in this primary, whose perimeter must be that of the NFP: “From Philippe Poutou to François Hollande. It’s up to them to choose to go home or not. »»
As for the hypothesis of a candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon without going through the primary box, he considers that “everything is a question of balance of power. A candidate legitimized by millions of voters, it turns up the calculations. »»
Asked to know if he would support the winner whatever he is, including if it was François Hollande or Raphaël Glucksmann, he assures not to imagine “that one participates in such a ballot without, then, respect the rules”.
