“Splits” and “splits”
“Primaries create divisions, they create divisions, and the day after the primaries, you have opponents of the candidate who was nominated last, who will support another candidate,” the judge said on the program “Political Questions” on France Inter in partnership with Le Monde and France Television.
In an interview on Saturday with Ouest-France, Olivier Faure called for a “joint left-wing and environmentalist candidate” for the 2027 presidential election, who could be chosen through “primaries, a council of elders, and citizens.” Convention, a combination of several processes. He adds, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot be the candidate of the entire left.”
Manuel Bombard added: “Primary elections in which we say that there are those who have the right to participate and those who do not have the right to participate… All of this is not serious.”
For Manuel Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains “the best person if there were a presidential election tomorrow.”
