Green activists are voting from Friday, December 5 to Monday, December 8 to choose who will represent them in the left-wing and Green primary, but the suspense is minimal, and party leader Marine Tondelier is expected to be easily chosen.
Marine Tondelier faces a relatively unknown opponent, Waleed Mouhali, a lecturer and researcher in energy physics and a municipal councilor in La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine).
This nomination comes as the primary for the left and the Greens, led by the Socialist Party, the Greens, Génération·s, and former La France Insoumise MPs Clémentine Autain (L’Après) and François Ruffin (Debout!), remains uncertain. This is especially true since neither the Communists, nor the leader of Place Publique, Raphaël Glucksmann, nor the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, wish to participate at this stage. Its procedures, still under discussion, as well as the date of this vote, tentatively scheduled for October 2026, are to be announced in mid-December.
Which of Marine Tondelier or Waleed Mouhali should represent them in the future primary of part of the left scheduled for autumn 2026.
In the meantime, Green Party members must vote electronically, from Friday at 9 a.m. to Monday at noon, to choose between Marine Tondelier and Waleed Mouhali. The results will be announced on Monday at 1 p.m., and both candidates will make a statement immediately afterward. Whoever wins will be the party’s sole candidate for the primary. But there is little doubt that Marine Tondelier, 39, who has led the party since 2022 and was re-elected last April with 73% of the vote, will be chosen, given her prominent media presence in recent years.
Marine Tondelier
Tondelier, who champions a united left for the 2027 presidential election, announced her candidacy for this internal nomination in the “Nouvel Obs” at the end of October, convinced that “popular support” for environmental solutions is “massive” and that her camp can win.
If she is chosen, the elected official from Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) will face two former LFI (La France Insoumise) members of parliament, François Ruffin and Clémentine Autain, who have already declared their candidacies, and almost certainly a Socialist candidate, perhaps the party’s first secretary, Olivier Faure, with whom she is close.
