François Ruffin, 47, is one of the personalities whose names are circulating, within LFI and more broadly within the left, as potential candidates for the presidential election of 2027. In the PS, the PCF or among the ecologists, its evocation does not make people cringe, and can be an asset for a single candidacy of the Nupes.
The leader of the Insoumis, who came third in the last presidential election (22%), had indicated in January that he was "not a candidate" for his succession to represent the France insubordinate.