François Ruffin confirms that he might be a candidate within the major of the “unitary left” | EUROtoday

The Somme deputy François Ruffin confirmed, Monday January 26, in interviews with Release and TF1 that he can be a superb candidate for the first of the “unitary left”, like Marine Tondelier for the Ecologists and Clémentine Autain for L’après (motion of former “rebels”). The members on this major – through which neither Raphaël Glucksmann (Place publique), nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise, LFI), nor the French Communist Party (PCF) will take part – introduced this weekend that it will be held on October 11.

“The primary is confirmed: it will be October 11. And yes, unsurprisingly, I will be a candidate”mentioned the founding father of the Debout! In Release. “It will happen”assured François Ruffin in Releasewith out specifying whether or not he may very well be a candidate if the first didn’t happen. “And I will not back down: once the 500 [signatures de] mayors and the 100,000 supporters, 100,000 citizen sponsors, I will be a candidate for the presidential election”he added. “I’m going there to win, and above all I’m going there to help the French win”he insisted on TF1.

In May 2025, the previous “rebellious” – who broke with LFI on the time of the 2024 legislative elections – had already referred to as for a major and introduced that he can be a candidate. Since then, the deputy for Somme, with three victories in his constituency since 2017, together with two towards the National Rally, has notably launched his motion Debout!, a nationwide model of his small get together Picardie Debout!

Often criticized for his difficulties integrating right into a collective, he has develop into one of many primary defenders of the first, which he needs to be “overflow”.

“First minimum wage president”

François Ruffin continues to succeed in out to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann in order that they’ll take part. “What are they afraid of? Of the vote, of the left-wing people, of their voters? »he asked in Releasewhile the founder of Place publique, credited with around 13% of the votes, reiterated on Monday his refusal to participate in a process which, according to him, “is a desire not to choose between the two poles that exist on the left” : social democracy and the unconventional left. He referred to as his “socialist partners” to construct a “common platform”.

In the occasion of victory within the presidential election, François Ruffin, aged 50, guarantees “a new abolition of privileges”. “The instance will come from above: I’m the primary deputy with the minimal wage, I would be the first president with the minimal wage. I’ll pay my electrical energy payments like de Gaulle and I’ll purchase my dishes on the grocery store like his spouse, Yvonne. We will make 20 million euros in financial savings on the Elysée funds, 4 hundred nursing positions. It’s an emblem.”he promised. And to add, on TF1: “I was not born for this, as a child I did not imagine myself as president, but I feel inhabited by a thousand voices, a thousand lives, a thousand faces. »

The co-founder of L’après Clémentine Autain, who also broke with LFI, and the boss of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, have already announced their candidacy as part of this primary, where the boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, wishes to engage the socialists.