Overview
- This week parties on the left held their summer universities with La France insoumise staging large Amfis in the Drôme that will close with Jean‑Luc Mélenchon and Les Écologistes meeting in Grenoble under Marine Tondelier’s leadership.
- Marine Tondelier repeated calls for a united left while keeping an autonomous Ecologistes presidential bid and scheduling internal decisions for later, arguing ecology must remain central to the campaign.
- LFI is using its polling lead to press the Ecologistes to back Mélenchon by linking future legislative agreements and government pacts to any EELV endorsement.
- Raphaël Glucksmann is preparing to declare a presidential bid and the Socialist Party with Place publique will hold a restricted primary in October, offering a social‑democrat alternative that splits the non‑Mélenchon left.
- Several Ecologistes deputies attended LFI events this week, signalling cross‑party openings but internal factional splits persist and the left’s fragmentation risks helping the Rassemblement National; watch the October PS primary and EELV’s internal vote for the next turning points.