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François Ruffin, deputy for Somme, during Volunteers' Night, organized at the village hall in Abbeville (Somme), January 30, 2026.

In the automotive that takes him to Aire-sur-la-Lys (Pas-de-Calais), the place he should meet household assistants in battle with their employer, the division, François Ruffin counts and recounts: “32,000”, “35,000 within an hour”he believes. At the top of the day, Wednesday January 28, there shall be 38,000. Per week later, greater than 70,000 “supports” are written on his presidential candidate platform, “We president!” “. All it takes is an email address, a zip code and a single click to get there. Of the “citizen sponsorships”as presented by the deputy for the Somme, supposed to strengthen his candidacy.

While the left’s primary, scheduled for October 11, is beginning to be organized, François Ruffin did not wait for the Socialist Party (PS), which is still reluctant to participate, to launch his campaign. His comrade and deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain did the same. In the wake of the announcements on this ballot which must nominate a common candidate for the left outside La France insoumise, the two former “rebellious” took the opportunity to make their “warming tower”, according to the expression of François Ruffin.

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