François Ruffin promises to be a meeting of Unsourvable France, as official support to Jean-Luc Mélenchon

So far silent, the member “Insoumis” will be one of the animators of a candidate meeting on January 11th.

Le Monde with AFP

It was hitherto been discreet, so much on the issue of support for the presidential election that on the breakup situation of the left: François Ruffin should finally leave his silence. The member for the sum announced, Tuesday, January 4th, on Facebook as present at a meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s presidential campaign, which will take place on January 11 at Le Mans (Sarthe).

This meeting, on the theme of health, was added to Mr. Ruffin’s “events” on his Facebook page, by means of an official visual of Mr. Mélenchon’s campaign. Member Picard is presented as one of the three headliners – the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) will be absent. He will share the scene with Clemence Waste, head of Mr. Mélenchon’s program, as well as with Matthias Tavel, Regional Counsel for the Pays de la Loire. The gathering will take place at 8 pm in the Henri-Barbin Room.

François Ruffin, the free electron

This commitment, without being accompanied for the moment of a speech, puts an end to the ambiguity of Mr. Ruffin’s position as to his support for Mr. Mélenchon for the presidential election 2022, confirmed by his entourage at the France-Press agency (AFP). The journalist, genuine free electron since his election at the Palais-Bourbon in 2017 on a list of Citizen Alliance between LFI, the Communists and the Ecologists, cultivates for several years a certain distance with his parliamentary group.

m. Ruffin also did not expressed on the situation of great confusion that reigns within the left, fragmented between five main candidates and the potential candidates of Christiane Taubira, at one hundred days of the first round. His entourage had assured that he would announce his support for the leader “Insoumit” in the fall of 2021. The member had preferred his speaking time in the media to promote his parliamentary work and that of his new documentary, released. Cinema in October, standing women!, on the precarious workers of the business trades.

/Media reports.