The leader of La France insoumise seduced by the idea of a candidacy of François Ruffin in 2027. Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself relaunched speculation on Wednesday around the next presidential election, seeming to dub, in a tweet, the free electron François Ruffin. “Francois is ready. Ahead ! “, tweeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, thanks to a survey of “electoral potential” flattering for the deputy of the Somme.
According to a Cluster 17 study for Point, if the presidential election took place tomorrow, 39% of those questioned consider their vote “probable” or “possible” for Marine Le Pen, who comes first. Behind, Edouard Philippe (25% of electoral potential), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (24%), Jordan Bardella (23%) and François Ruffin (21%) stand in respect, while the margin of error is two points .
“Representing the most invisible of the nation”
“All the work done over the past year has not been lost in the sand of the permanent bashing against me. Francois is ready. Ahead ! “, Continues the leader of the Insoumis, seeming to push the deputy of the Somme on the way to the presidential election, in which Jean-Luc Mélenchon has competed three times.
The leader of the Insoumis, who came third in the last presidential election (22%), indicated in January that he was “not a candidate” for his succession to represent insubordinate France in the 2027 presidential election, while allowing for the possibility that future “circumstances” decide otherwise.
François Ruffin, 47, is one of the personalities whose names are circulating, within LFI and more broadly within the left, as potential presidential candidates for 2027. At the PS, the PCF or among ecologists, his evocation does not does not cringe, and can be an asset for a single candidacy of the Nupes.
“I don’t think about it in the morning while shaving or running”, François Ruffin assured in February in an interview with the online media Konbini, “but I know that there is a duty today to represent the most invisible to the nation”. Regularly since the end of the presidential election, the one who is considered a free electron within the LFI group in the Assembly, explains that the left cannot win if it does not take into account the concerns and the way of speaking of the classes rural people.