A common NFP candidate for 2027? Bompard and Faure argue over the usefulness of a primary and over Jean-Luc Mélenchon

The coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard reaffirmed this Sunday his opposition to a primary for the nomination of a single candidate from the left for the presidential election, 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 program Questions Politiques on France Inter in partnership with “Le Monde” and France Télévisions.

“Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot be the candidate of the entire left”

In an interview this Saturday in Ouest-France, Olivier Faure pleads for “a common candidate of the left and environmentalists” in 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 person best placed 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 has recently been more evasive on this point.