A political back to school with the line of sights. On the first day of their summer universities in Strasbourg, the Ecologists organized, Thursday, August 21, a great gathering of all the left, including melenchonist, by calling “To responsibility” with a view to a joint candidacy for the presidential election.
In her speech, the national secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelierhas once again pleaded for a primary ranging from Raphaël Glucksmann to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while the two men refuse any idea of union of the left for 2027, each preferring to go rider alone to succeed in winning in the polls. “Let’s stop with personal attacks and Picrocholines wars, and commedia dell’arte, and” gnagnagna, if you put me a dissident there, I put you on it “ (…) We don’t have time “she hammered, putting pressure on her partners.
“There is a rocking of fascism that is underway. It is at work globally, as if the states were dominoes that fell (…). We have a role to play historic because France is one of the next dominoes ”also warned Marine Tondelier. And she warned that “Environmentalists are not intended to be only the kind organizers of the Union”and will be represented “In the primary that promises to be”stating that it would make public “In the fall” His decision on his potential candidacy.
In a meeting entitled “To win tomorrow” met on stage the boss of the socialists, Olivier Faure, and representatives of all the training of the new Popular Front (NFP), including public square and rebellious France (LFI).
But Thierry Brochot, general delegate of public square, the party of Raphaël Glucksmann, quickly stopped the hopes, believing that the union “Is not in itself a propulsive force” and only becomes so if “She has a common sense and project”. The “rebellious” deputy Alma Dufour has also acted “Strategic differences” Between LFI and its NFP partners.
“Union is not the only condition for victory but without union will repeat itself what has already happened. As if we had not understood that four, five, six candidates on the left in the first round, it’s none in the second round ”replied Olivier Faure. And if the left is not in the second round, it “Would no longer have its place in the political debate”he warned. “Eight in ten left French people want the union”hammered the ex-“rebellious” Clémentine Autain, pro-Unionist, calling for his partners “To take action”.
Support for citizen mobilization of September 10
For the time being, at least one point of agreement: almost all promise to vote the censorship of the Bayrou government during the 2026 budget exam. And to support citizen movements, including the blocking movement of September 10.
Citizen mobilization with contours still vague but “That we must accompany”assured Olivier Faure. “We will be there on September 10 and the following days”he promised. Not for “Channel, tame, instrumentalize or submit” this movement but for “Offer him a political outlet that is not that of the extreme right”.
This rally follows the initiative launched in early July in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) by Lucie Castets, the ephemeral contender at Matignon of the New Popular Front (NFP), for a joint candidacy during the next presidential election, faced with the risk of seeing the far right arrive. “The bar is high for a victory of the left and the Ecologists but it can be reached”assured the latter in Strasbourg, convinced that “Union is the key”. “I think the lefts must be soluble. They are soluble in the fight against inequalities, for international law, for social justice and tax justice ”, She also added.
Lucie Castets had obtained from Bagneux that the Socialist Party, Ecologists, Generation. s, standing (François Ruffin’s party) and after (the party of the ex-“rebellious”) act the principle of a “Common project” and a common candidate for 2027. They decided in particular to agree on the procedures for appointing the candidate at the end of 2025 and on the choice of the candidate “Between May and October 2026”.
“There will be two political offers in 2027” on the left, says Raphaël Glucksmann
But while the NFP had succeeded in gathering almost all of the left to the legislative elections after the dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann have hitherto refused any participation in a new unitary initiative, each preferring to go to the rider alone. The leader in public square insisted in an interview Posted Wednesday by Mediapart : “There will be two political offers in 2027” left “Who are not soluble in each other”he declares, recalling his opposition to Jean-Luc Mélenchon on his “Vision of France, Europe, the world”of “Democracy as public debate”.
In an interview with Libération broadcast Thursday, Marine Tondelier deplored these “Small games of devices”. “Our compass, to all, must be anti -fascismshe warns. Look at what’s going on in the world, where large democracies turn one by one. France is one of the next dominoes that can fall. And if France falls, Europe vacillates ”.
Another planned rally, without “rebellious”
“Why did we do the NFP?” Because the danger of seeing Jordan Bardella arrive [président du Rassemblement national] in Matignon was imminent. Who can sincerely think that we would have, in 2025, in 2026 and 2027, more the luxury of the division than in 2024? »»still argues Marine Tondelier, also pleading for large gatherings in the event of anticipated partial legislative elections and for the municipal elections of 2026.
But for this deadline, during which Ecologists hope to keep the cities won in 2020 and conquer others with the rest of the left, tensions are sometimes strong locally with socialist or “rebellious” partners.
A similar unit rally is scheduled for next week, for the PS summer days in Blois, but without the “rebellious”, with whom relations are freezing, especially since the socialists refused to censor the government on the 2025 budget.
This ode to the Union risks being abused on Friday, at the summer universities of LFI in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (Drôme) with the speech, still eagerly awaited, of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, already launched in his fourth presidential campaign.
