Overview
- Green leader Marine Tondelier said the Socialists must choose whether to back the plan and warned neither camp can win alone.
- The Socialist national bureau put Olivier Faure in the minority with a resolution attacking deals with Jean‑Luc Mélenchon’s party, which deepened doubts about holding the vote.
- The primary was meant to pick one non‑Mélenchon left candidate for 2027 to avoid split votes against the far right, yet Raphaël Glucksmann refuses to take part.
- Recent municipal losses weakened Tondelier and Faure, as the Greens lost cities such as Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Besançon and Poitiers, which sapped internal support for the process.
- Separate runs now loom, with Tondelier floating a Green bid if the PS walks away and François Ruffin preparing his own candidacy, even as public figures like Étienne Balibar and Thomas Piketty urge unity in a Libération appeal.