“A big day”, “a historic moment”, “a turning point”, they stressed in concert, as if to encourage themselves. Meeting this Wednesday, July 2 in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) this Wednesday, during a working meeting, representatives of the unitary left have affirmed their intention to build a common platform from which will emerge a presidential candidate of 2027.
Gathered behind the ex-candidate to the new Popular Front in Matignon Lucie Castets, the number one of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, the Environment of Ecologists Marine Tondelier, the deputies (ex-insoumis) Clémentine Autain and François Ruffin or the representatives of the Generation Party. Supreme.
They do not yet have the name of their pretender and not yet a program, but they already display a common desire to line up behind the same candidate and behind a standard: “Popular Front 2027”.
A common candidate designated between May and October 2026
“A year after the democratic burst that climbed the road to the far right and protected our institutions, we want to reconnect with hope today and engage a popular dynamic which will win the left and environmentalists in 2027”, immediately announced Lucie Castets, who specified the calendar that the partners have set.
The common candidate will thus be designated between May and October 2026, according to methods of designation which will be arrested by the end of 2025. In parallel, to build the common program, six major thematic conventions will be organized “in villages and in cities, throughout France, open to citizens, experts, representatives of civil society”.
The first secretary of PS Olivier Faure spoke of “an oath of the Palme game of the left and ecology” which engages each over the next two years. With the same objective: “Do not leave the monopoly of the alternative to the extreme right, do not leave it the possibility of being the only way to embody change from the policy conducted for eight years by Emmanuel Macron and his family”.
The socialist agrees: the task promises to be difficult. “Obviously, the path is not traced, there is not a boulevard in front of us. But this crest path, I see it, I believe it reachable, “he said, insisting on” the conditions of loyalty and fraternity “which linked the participants to the meeting of Bagneux.
“I say to all the absent on the left that the door is open”
Admittedly, on the gallery, there were also a lot of absent. Those who have declined the invitation launched by Lucie Castets: the rebellious of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the MEP Place Public Raphaël Glucksmann, who both do not believe in this approach. But also the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel who, in Le Parisien – today in France, first called for the Union of the Left for the municipal elections, seeing in some on the left “a lot of hypocrisy and a double game”.
Absences regretted by Marine Tondelier. “We will do everything we can to meet the following meetings. Because we have no choice. Because it’s not time to play the game of the seven differences. Because it’s not time to cut the hair in four. “Same invitation to the Union of the Member of the Movement after, Clémentine Autain:” I say to all the absent on the left that the door is open. »»
For François Ruffin, who has just founded his standing movement!, It is now a question of campaigning at the start of the school year to offer “a recovery plan” to the French. “Our political parties will have a weekly meeting every Monday in the National Assembly,” announces the deputy for the Somme. A group will be responsible for the programmatic coordination, the other of the coordination of the process. There will be work in the holds to reach a program, a team. ”
Among these “unitary” figures of the left, it is a question of resuscitating the hope born at the time of the new Popular Front last year, after the dissolution causing anticipated legislative elections. “By making this Popular Front 2027, we relieve the light at the end of the tunnel,” sums up Marine Tondelier.
