Overview

• La France insoumise has designated Raphaël Glucksmann as its chief rival for the 2027 race, accusing his agenda of echoing Emmanuel Macron’s centrist approach.
• Raphaël Glucksmann’s June 23 “Vision for France” platform dropped 21 of the 30 emergency measures from the 2022 Nouveau Front populaire, prompting fierce LFI criticism.
• Socialists, ecologists and former Insoumis gathered on July 2 in Bagneux and again at a Charité-sur-Loire “festival des idées” to debate a broad primary process for a unified left-of-centre candidate.
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann both declined invitations to the coalition talks, each publicly rejecting the concept of a wide-open primary.
• Recent polls put Glucksmann at 11–12 percent of voting intentions, making him the only left-wing contender seen as capable of challenging Mélenchon in the first round.