As a good former disciple of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Jérôme Guedj has his eyes fixed on the “calendar”.
He ticked a big cross on his on the “end of the year 2025”.
Because the socialist deputy has been nourishing a hope for months: that a major primary will be held during this period to nominate a single candidate from the left for the presidential election of 2027. According to our information, this left-wing unionist will therefore publish during next summer a booklet detailing the process of such a primary.
To convince his left-wing partners?
For several months, Jérôme Guedj and others, socialists, ecologists, communists and rebellious "rebels", have been meeting from time to time to build a common future on the left, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon still leaves doubt as to a fourth presidential candidacy.
“The idea is to lay the foundations
(for joint work for 2027)
, this is what we worked on in our informal discussions”, which have since ceased, explains Jérôme Guedj.
“The idea of the primary is gaining ground and I am delighted about it,” he continues.
Especially since for the moment, Olivier Faure (PS), Marine Tondelier (EELV) and Fabien Roussel (PCF), seem to be working together to offer an alternative to a new candidacy from Mélenchon.
Jérôme Guedj thus offers them a working method: working on a common program, based on that of Nupes and leading to a single candidacy via a democratic primary, “the complete opposite of LFI”.
“An alter Nupes”
From then on, everyone is waiting for the results of the European elections, where everyone leaves separately with their own list, to relaunch a sort of “alter Nupes”.
“The process could arise the day after the European elections from the anger of the left-wing people, like:
Stop your bullshit!
», imagines Jérôme Guedj for whom the primary “must take place before the end of 2025”, in order to reproduce this union in the municipal elections of 2026.
If this ends up being organized, it will have to decide the choice, according to Guedj, “of the best candidate to beat Marine Le Pen”.
In the game of predictions, he thinks “that a solemn rebel”, like François Ruffin, or a “radicalized socialist” can win.
It remains to resolve the equation Jean-Luc Mélenchon, resistant to primaries, and follower of “consensus”.
The tribune privately mocks these maneuvers in an attempt to get “carpets” elected.