François Ruffin’s back to school reflects his image: multitasking. Cinema, literature, politics too… After publishing a book, Itinerary, My entire France, not half (The links that liberate, 160 p., 12 euros), which caused a sensation by definitively announcing its break with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise (LFI), which he directed a documentary social comedy, Start working!about the disconnection of the upper classes. The film was released in theaters on Wednesday, November 6. eight years later Thanks boss!François Ruffin this time immerses himself in Sarah Saldmann, a controversial lawyer who likes to attack “assistantship” in the antennas of Vincent Bolloré, in the daily agony of minimum wage workers.
Currently, the deputy for the Somme is both on a promotional tour and in the National Assembly, where he is now part of Les Ecologistes. Another movie, even if it is one “ political manifesto » In your own words, can you start a new chapter in your political journey? At a time when Edouard Philippe has already come out of the woods, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen already seem to be preparing, everyone expects a spectacular act like the one that always appears in opinion polls. He heads the list of personalities who will probably embody the left in the 2027 presidential elections.
On Monday, November 4, in a cafe near the Palacio Borbón, the deputy reporter takes an hour to answer this important question. Are you thinking about 2027? ” Yeah “…Silence… Is that all? Especially because the president of his micro-party, Picardía, Guillaume Ancelet told us, very sure of himself: “François is a conqueror. » But, always, the interested party is reluctant to expose himself. You have to scold him so that he finally verbalizes: “Of course, it is obvious… 2027 is a card that is on the table, he explains, as if his intention had always been known. There will be no other path than a path of freedom and audacity to respond to a deep aspiration of the people of the left. »
“François, it’s Van Gogh”
In reality, François Ruffin never so explicitly considered a presidential candidacy, limiting himself to publishing some recurring but ambiguous postcards aimed at the microcosm and public opinion. A lack of clear direction that ended up making those close to him doubt. In Flixecourt (Somme), during his first political return, on August 31, he had not outlined anything for the future, but he left a sample of pending issues for the thousand activists who came to applaud him. Originally, a big announcement was well planned… “There was a path until the afternoon of June 9. But elements came to shake this path: the dissolution, the call to the Popular Front and a complicated legislative election in the face of the RN wave.”reply.
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