"François is ready": Mélenchon evokes the idea of ​​​​Ruffin's candidacy for the presidential election

Would the idea catch on?

In a tweet, published this Wednesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon paved the way for a possible candidacy of François Ruffin in the presidential election of 2027.

, assured the rebellious leader, in reaction to a survey carried out by the opinion laboratory Cluster 17 for the newspaper

.

Behind Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Ruffin each cross

if we add the

and the

in the event of a first round this Sunday.

A way perhaps also for Jean-Luc Mélenchon to turn the page on the Quatennens affair, while the deputy from the North, convicted of domestic violence, must return to the benches rebellious under criticism.

Ruffin does not rule out a candidacy

The idea does not seem to displease some within the Nupes.

, launched the ecologist deputy, Aurélien Taché, in reference to François Mitterrand and François Hollande.

,” he added.

François Ruffin is in any case one of the names regularly cited to take over from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

In January, already, the Insoumis in chief had confessed to having a

for the deputy of the Somme in the columns of the

.

," he said.

As for the other suitors, including Clémentine Autain, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had decided in this same interview:

As early as March 2019, François Ruffin also told Le

that Jean-Luc Mélenchon

.

, he confided.

If he had claimed not to be a

, the leader of the Insoumis, however, maintains the ambiguity on a fourth candidacy.

, he had recalled on the set of France 2. François Ruffin for his part never closed the door to 2027. In an interview with the media Konbini, in February, he had said don't rule out showing up

in the presidential election to

.