François Hollande, a return for 2027 strewn with pitfalls | EUROtoday

The blunder is by Olivier Faure. This Saturday, January 24, in Tours, the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) is accompanied by the quantity one of many Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, former “rebels” Clémentine Autain, Alexis Corbière and François Ruffin to unveil the date of their main. “If tomorrow there are people who say: “Well, basically, we all agree that it should be François Hollande”, excellent, it is going to be François Hollande”dares the socialist who continues to be attempting to get the social democrats on board. The faces of his acolytes fall. M^me Tondelier nods his head to say no, M^me Autain pretends to need to escape the room, Mr. Corbière laughs and Mr. Ruffin pouts.

The scene illustrates the ambivalence of the scenario of the previous socialist president. Hated by a big a part of the left, who accuse him of getting destroyed his political house, the one who returned to the Palais-Bourbon, in 2024, as a easy deputy for Corrèze has achieved a small tour de drive. Mocked, thought-about far-fetched only a few months in the past, the speculation of his candidacy for 2027 is taking form as the trail of the left turns into darker, caught between a hypothetical main and the doubts surrounding Raphaël Glucksmann, whose broadcast deemed a failure on LCI in December 2025, stays in individuals’s minds, as does his violet discretion on budgetary topics.

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