Overview
- Olivier Faure, speaking at a Montreuil debate on Saturday, told Raphaël Glucksmann and Boris Vallaud to stop dodging the primary question and warned that many left candidates would shut the door to the runoff.
- He said he has the legitimacy to run in a unitary contest and wants one joint nominee chosen in the autumn.
- He proposed opening the race to anyone who secures 500 endorsements from mayors, a rule that could yield more than one Socialist in a primary.
- Greens leader Marine Tondelier plus deputies Clémentine Autain and François Ruffin favor a primary, while Yannick Jadot urged starting from a shared policy program and Glucksmann and Vallaud avoided the method debate.
- He confirmed he will attend a May 5 meeting in Paris for primary supporters, as the non‑Mélenchon left searches for one candidate in a two‑round system that punishes split fields.