The PS boss, Olivier Faureassured on Saturday that “there will be a common candidate of the left and environmentalists” for the presidential election of 2027, claiming that his designation by a primary was the “one of the possibilities”, in an interview with The platform Sunday.
While he had already advocated a joint candidacy ranging from the leader in Public Place Raphaël Glucksmann to former lfi François RuffinOlivier Faure notes that the latter “expressed the idea of a primary”: “It is one of the possibilities”, he considered.
“A common programmatic platform”
“We must reach a process of common designation,” adds the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, according to which “this must go beforehand through a common programmatic platform”.
About Raphaël Glucksmann, who said he does not wish to participate in a primary, Olivier Faure believes that “no one can say I decide to move forward without trying to gather the left and the environmentalists ». “The subject is not to take personal risks, it is to make risks take up risks and millions of French and French directly threatened by the arrival of the far right in power,” he observes.
Olivier Faure was re -elected on the head at the head of the Socialist Party on Friday by collecting 50.9% of the votes of the militants expressed.
Asked about the will of his opponent, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (49.1%), to submit a social democratic candidacy to the 2027 presidential election, the first renewed secretary believes that “this question has been decided” and is “now behind: the congresses are used for that”. “No one can take responsibility for being with four or five left candidates on the starting line,” he warns.
