“The primaries create divisions, they create cleavages and the day after the primary, you have the opponents of the candidate who was finally nominated, who will support another candidate,” he judged in the show Political Questions on France Inter in partnership with Le Monde and France Télévisions.
In an interview on Saturday in Ouest-France, Mr. Faure pleads for “a common candidate of the left and environmentalists” for the 2027 presidential election, who could be chosen via “a primary, a council of wise men, a citizens’ convention, a mixture of several processes. And he adds that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot be the candidate of the entire left”.
“A primary in which we say there are those who have the right to participate and those who do not have the right to participate… all that is not serious,” added Mr. Bompard. For Mr. Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains “the best placed person if there were to be a presidential election tomorrow”.
The LFI coordinator also marked his difference with his ally of the New Popular Front by emphasizing that Lucie Castets “remained (the) candidate” of the NFP to go to Matignon, in the event of the fall of the Barnier government, while Mr. Faure has recently been shown to be more evasive on this point.
