Will François Ruffin be Jean-Luc Mélenchon's successor in 2027?
The subject looks like an old sea serpent and invites itself from time to time within La France Insoumise.
Questioned on Sunday by the online media Konbini, the emblematic deputy of the Somme again raised some clues.
"I don't think about it in the morning while shaving, or while running, but I know that there is a duty today to represent the most invisible of the nation
," he began.
Before explaining:
“They need to be carried by a voice of hope which is on the left and which is not depressed, on the far right.
If one day I have to embody that, I will
.
Not the first signal
This is not the first time that François Ruffin has mentioned a presidential candidacy.
As early as March 2019, he told Le
Figaro
that Jean-Luc Mélenchon
“encouraged him not to close the door”
.
"He said to me: 'If one day the flag is on the ground and it is you who have to raise it, you will do it and you will carry it'"
, he confided.
The MP, director of
Merci Patron!
, nevertheless admitted at the time that he
“did not see himself as a statesman”
, that he had
“difficulty getting into the costume”
.
Has it evolved since?
Until now, François Ruffin has always indicated that he would not be a candidate against Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“
Media, do not dream.
There will be no duel with my friend Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Our forces add up to “do better”
”, he had warned in a tweet, in November 2022. But if the ex-candidate of La France Insoumise did not return there a fourth time in 2027?
The name of François Ruffin returns to the top of the list of potential successors.
In the meantime, the deputy already has an idea for his first measure in the event of victory in the presidential election:
"I think I would open the gardens of the Élysée so that there is a beautiful popular festival which takes place at the interior
”.
