Overview
- Marine Tondelier, leader of Les Écologistes, sent a letter Friday proposing a co-written 21-point program and a single primary to pick one left-wing nominee for the 2027 presidential race.
- Her email went to the Socialist Party, Génération.s, deputies François Ruffin and Clémentine Autain, the Communist Party, and Place publique, but not to La France insoumise, which has begun its own candidate process.
- The draft platform lists concrete steps that include raising the minimum wage, boosting teachers’ pay by 15% over the five-year term, restoring community policing, and regularizing undocumented workers, plus broad goals on housing and public health.
- Responses remain split, with PS chief Olivier Faure voicing support but facing pushback inside his party, while PCF’s Fabien Roussel and Place publique’s Raphaël Glucksmann reject a primary.
- Tondelier argues a joint primary is the only democratic and clear method to rally the left, and her team says they are still trying to win over the PCF and Place publique as no binding decision has been made.