“2027 is a card that is on the table”

François Ruffin’s return to school reflects his image: multitasking. Cinema, literature, politics, too… After publishing a book, Itinerary. My whole France, not half (The links that liberate, 160 pages, 12 euros), which caused a sensation by definitively announcing his break with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise (LFI), he directed a documentary social comedy, Get to work!about the disconnection of the upper classes. The film was released in theaters on Wednesday, November 6. Eight years later Thanks boss!François Ruffin this time dives into Sarah Saldmann, a controversial lawyer who likes to attack “assistantship” on Vincent Bolloré’s antennas, in the daily throes of minimum wage workers.

At the moment, the deputy for the Somme is as much on a promotional tour as in the National Assembly, where he now sits with Les Ecologistes. Yet another film, even if it is a « political manifesto » in his own words, can he trigger a new chapter in his political journey? At a time when Edouard Philippe has already come out of the woods, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen already seem to be preparing, everyone is now watching for a spectacular act of the kind that always appears, in opinion polls. at the top of the list of personalities likely to embody the left in the 2027 presidential election.

Monday, November 4, in a café near the Palais-Bourbon, the deputy reporter takes an hour to answer this capital question. Is he thinking about 2027? « Oui »…Silence…Is that all? Especially since the president of his microparty, Picardy standing, Guillaume Ancelet told us, very sure of himself: “Francois is a conqueror. » But, always, the person concerned is reluctant to expose himself. You have to nag him so that he finally verbalizes: “Of course, it’s obvious… 2027 is a card that is on the table, he explains, as if his intention had always been known. There will be no other path than a path of freedom and audacity to respond to a deep aspiration of the people of the left. »

“François, it’s Van Gogh”

In reality, François Ruffin never so explicitly considered a presidential candidacy, contenting himself with posting a few recurring, but ambiguous, postcards aimed at the microcosm and public opinion. A lack of clear direction which ended up making those close to him doubt. In Flixecourt (Somme), during his first political return, on August 31, he had not outlined anything for the future, but left a taste of unfinished business to the thousand activists who came to applaud him. Originally, a big announcement was well planned… “There was a path until the evening of June 9. But elements came to shake up this path: the dissolution, the call to the Popular Front, and a complicated legislative election in the face of the RN wave”he replies.

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