\u201cEven though the Socialists didn\u2019t lose the municipal elections, we would be wrong to believe that we won them,\u201d he told Le Parisien. <\/p>\n
Family feud<\/p>\n
Faure and Vallaud represent the two dueling visions of the Socialists\u2019 future, and their divergent beliefs on how to choose a candidate for 2027 reflect that.<\/p>\n
Faure wants to look left. He is gunning for a broad primary, save for France Unbowed, to select a single candidate for the 2027 presidential race among the Socialists, the Greens, the Communists and other left-wing parties. Supporters argue such a primary would maximize the chances of a left-wing candidate reaching the second round. <\/p>\n
In the French presidential system, only two candidates qualify for the runoff, and many believe National Rally President Jordan Bardella\u2019s strong poll numbers effectively guarantee him a spot in the final, even this early.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an illusion that we\u2019re going to win by bringing people who have voted for Macron twice back into the fold, even though they haven\u2019t supported the left for over a decade,\u201d said a Faure-aligned parliamentarian who, like others quoted in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal party dynamics. \u201cIt\u2019s doomed to fail, whereas listening to the left population\u2019s aspiration for unity could offer at least a shot at victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vallaud believes the party needs its own moderate candidate who can appeal to centrist voters, rather than joining a primary that could force them to support a more radical figure from outside their own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEven though the Socialists didn\u2019t lose the municipal elections, we would be wrong to believe that we won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[379,1648,5,389,1649,380,282,390,1650],"class_list":{"0":"post-1687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-elections-in-europe","9":"tag-far-left","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-francois-hollande","12":"tag-french-election-2027","13":"tag-french-local-elections-2026","14":"tag-french-politics","15":"tag-jean-luc-melenchon","16":"tag-raphael-glucksmann"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}