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François Ruffin places the debate of ideas ahead of presidential...

On France Inter, he expressed irritation at seeing the debate reduced to alliances.

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Key facts

  • Measures he defends appear in the platform of France Unbowed. He was close to it without being a member, before distancing himself in 2024.
  • On France Inter, he bristled at seeing the debate reduced to alliances. Talking only about that, he argued, makes it possible to avoid addressing the…
  • Questioned at the station’s microphone, he replied bluntly: “Without any doubt. I know whom I am here for.” He says he wants to represent the workers…

Measures he defends appear in the platform of France Unbowed. He was close to it without being a member, before distancing himself in 2024.

On France Inter, he bristled at seeing the debate reduced to alliances. Talking only about that, he argued, makes it possible to avoid addressing the substance: ideas and platforms.

Questioned at the station’s microphone, he replied bluntly: “Without any doubt. I know whom I am here for.” He says he wants to represent the workers who were talked about at the time of Covid, those who were applauded and who, according to him, “were totally forgotten in 2022” during Emmanuel Macron’s re-election.

At the moment of choice, “faced with a certain right,” he said he hoped that “everyone on the left and beyond the left will know how to take their responsibilities.”.

Dig deeper

Who is François Ruffin?

A member of parliament for the Somme and a figure of the radical left, he was close to La France Insoumise without being a member, before distancing himself from it in 2024.

What is La France Insoumise?

A radical-left movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose platform includes several measures championed by Ruffin.

Who is Emmanuel Macron?

President of the Republic, re-elected in 2022, an election that Ruffin associates with the forgetting of the workers applauded during Covid.

Which workers is he talking about?

Those in essential jobs hailed at the height of Covid — health workers, cashiers, delivery workers — whom he says he wants to represent.

Why does this debate matter?

As presidential choices approach, Ruffin wants the left to decide first on ideas and platforms, not only on alliances against the right.

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