The LFI deputy for the Somme, questioned by Konbini on his political ambitions, did not say he was against the idea of ”embodying” in the future “a voice of hope which is on the left and which is not in depression”.
“If one day I have to embody that, I will”. Deputy François Ruffin (LFI group) does not rule out running “one day” for the presidency, to “represent the most invisible of the nation”, in an interview with Konbini.
Asked if he could be a presidential candidate, the deputy of the Somme assures that he “does not think about it in the morning by (shaving) or running”.
“But I know that there is a duty today to represent the most invisible of the Nation”, adds the one who was one of the leaders of LFI against the government’s pension reform project. “Retirement is a right to happiness […] we must preserve for all, in our country, this right to happiness”, he adds to our colleagues from Konbini.
“A voice of hope”
“They need to be carried by a voice of hope which is on the left and which is not depressed, on the far right”, continues François Ruffin, specifying: “if one day I have to embody that, I will”.
And the first action he would do if elected president would be to “open the Elysée gardens so that there is a big popular party inside”.
Currently in his second term as deputy for the Somme, François Ruffin is increasingly present in the media, where he notably delivers his ideas on the link to be rebuilt between the left and the working classes. In November 2022, he appeared on the front page of OBSdefining himself as a “social democrat” and taking this expression “seriously”.
“I am on the left, and I embrace all its traditions”, wrote then on Twitter the one who founded his micro-party “Picardie Debout!” in 2019.
Supported by Mélenchon, but removed from the management of LFI
His name is circulating among the personalities in the LFI camp who could claim to be presidential candidates in 2027 while Jean-Luc Mélenchon has called for “to be replaced in 2027” and his natural successor, Adrien Quatennens, seems disqualified since his conviction for domestic violence.
“I have a weakness for him, I value what he does”, had in particular entrusted the founder of the movement in an interview granted to our colleagues from the World last January.
The fact remains that François Ruffin was dismissed in December 2022 from the “new coordination” of rebellious France, a decision which the deputy had deplored. “I think I had something to contribute […] I am a little sad that rather than an enlargement, we have a shrinkage”.
