Overview
- Olivier Faure leads Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol into Thursday’s final vote after securing 42.2% in the first round and winning Boris Vallaud’s personal endorsement.
- Socialist Party membership has collapsed to about 40,000 adherents, exposing deep strategic and ideological fractures ahead of the Nancy congress.
- Faure is advocating a broad alliance of non-Mélenchon left figures, naming Raphaël Glucksmann and François Ruffin as potential partners for a joint 2027 presidential bid.
- Mayer-Rossignol and his coalition of anti-Faure figures accuse the incumbent of ‘clannish’ governance and of maintaining ambiguous ties with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s camp.
- In parallel, former deputy Pierre-Yves Bournazel formally launched his 2026 Paris mayoral campaign with Édouard Philippe’s backing, positioning himself against Rachida Dati.