Overview
- Several communist deputies, reported as nine of the party's 17 MPs, publicly declared support for Jean‑Luc Mélenchon following internal debates earlier this week, a move they say aims to prevent a Marine Le Pen victory.
- The PCF's Conseil national voted on Saturday to suspend for the duration of the campaign any parliamentarian who endorses another candidate and warned that such support places a member outside the party.
- Jean‑Luc Mélenchon used a large rally at Le Bourget on November 7 to present L'Avenir en commun, a program of roughly 1,069 measures, and his campaign said more than 20,000 people attended the event.
- Deputies who broke with the PCF cite electoral strategy and mobilization on the streets as their rationale, while the party leadership says enforcing the September membership vote for Fabien Roussel is essential to party democracy.
- The dispute revives long‑running tensions that date to 2022 after the PCF chose Roussel by a 72% membership vote in September and now raises risks for left unity, candidate alliances, and control of parliamentary seats going into 2027.