the idea of a Nupes primary already divides the left
Socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj was the first to launch the idea of a primary to designate the candidate for the next presidential election. JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP Some socialists are pushing…
the idea of a Nupes primary already divides the left
Socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj was the first to launch the idea of a primary to designate the candidate for the next presidential election. JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP
Some socialists are pushing in particular for this mode of designation to prevent Mélenchon from proclaiming himself a candidate.
At the bottom of a Parisian brerie, a socialist strategist confides: “Our obsession is to know how to break the gl ceiling of the Nudes in 2027.” Even if the next presidential election is still far away, many on the left, and in particular in the PS, are already trying to tie up initial strategies. First certainty: mainly in favor of a common candidacy in four years, many socialists refuse that the flag be carried by LFI, and even less by Jean-Luc Melenchon. According to them, the leader of the Insoumis and his people would have a “gl ceiling” which would prevent them, in all configurations, from winning in the second round. Unfounded arguments for the Insoumis, slightly annoyed by “to receive lessons” parties that have not crossed the 5% mark… in the first round in 2022.
No matter, four years from the deadline, many of them consider it urgent to find a framework for the designation of a common candidate. Everywhere, the same fear is shared…
