United for the legislative elections, will the NFP manage to propose a single candidate in 2027? The coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard reaffirmed on Sunday his opposition to a primary for his nomination, as suggested by the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, opposed to a candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the name of the united left.
“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 The World and France Télévisions.
In an interview Saturday at West FranceOlivier Faure pleads for “a common candidate from 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 Manuel Bompard.
For Manuel 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 Olivier Faure showed himself lately more evasive on this point.
