Overview
- Manuel Bompard called Thursday for LFI, the Greens and the Communists to field a single presidential candidate in 2027.
- He linked the bid to a shared program and coordinated slates for Senate and legislative races run by a new political council.
- He said Jean‑Luc Mélenchon fits the profile for the role, while LFI will choose its nominee in due time and could do so before summer.
- Green leader Marine Tondelier said her party would back a non‑Green only through a primary, and PS chief Olivier Faure supports a non‑Mélenchon primary that some Socialists reject.
- Bompard framed the plan as a broad push to defeat the far right and noted the parties often vote together in parliament, after strains with the Greens over March municipal deals with the Socialists.