Overview

• Royal has formally resumed her Socialist Party membership and declared she will seek its 2027 presidential nomination if a primary follows party rules.
• In a July 21 Le Figaro interview, she affirmed she will “not shirk” participation in a properly organized and respectful PS primary, echoing her July 1 comments on BFM TV.
• Her condition underscores deep divisions on the left, with Olivier Faure, François Ruffin and Marine Tondelier backing a unified primary and Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann rejecting it.
• Eighteen years after losing to Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 and exiting the 2012 primary early, Royal frames her potential bid as driven by purpose rather than unyielding ambition.
• She continues her ecological advocacy by opposing the contested Loi Duplomb and promoting France’s potential as a major ecological power.