Overview
- In a Le Parisien interview, PS leader Olivier Faure says Jean‑Luc Mélenchon has become an illusion who harms the left's cause.
- He rejects the "slip" explanation for naming Epstein and Glucksmann, calling it unacceptable whether unconscious or deliberate.
- Faure reports encountering LFI activists and candidates who no longer recognize themselves in Mélenchon's direction and feel discouraged.
- He argues Mélenchon is the worst left option for second‑round contests and says LR's Bruno Retailleau uses him to draw the far right into the republican camp.
- No national PS‑LFI pact exists for the 2026 municipal elections, though joint lists run in more than 60 communes, and Faure signals a push for a single left candidate in 2027.