A candidate will be nominated for a putative primary that is still in the pipeline and is not guaranteed to be finalized. Europe Écologie-Les Verts will hold an internal ballot from December 5 to 8, 2025, to nominate a candidate for the possible left-wing and ecologist primary for the presidential election.
The vote, based on a first-past-the-post system, may lead to a second round between December 12 and 15, and applications are open until midnight on October 26. Each candidate must obtain at least 25 endorsements from Federal Councillors.
The motion governing the vote, adopted Saturday by the Federal Council by a large majority (72.04% of the vote), specifies that the winner of this vote will be the party’s sole representative in the left-wing and ecologist primary scheduled for 2026.
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SOME PARTNERS TENSE ABOUT THE NEWS
Except that this decision comes at a time when the terms of the joint left-wing primary have not yet been finalized. This situation is causing some partners to become nervous: “The Ecologists are putting everyone against the wall. It’s not a very good approach. Marine Tondelier has imposed her views,” a unionist official told AFP.
In other words, before uniting, the very diverse components of the left must first agree on pooling their ideas within a single bloc, itself led by a single candidate… even though Raphaël Glucksmann, for example, hasn’t ruled out going it alone without joining his (very broad) political family.
The Socialist Party, the Ecologists, Générations, Debout (François Ruffin’s party), and Après agreed in early July on the principle of a joint candidacy for 2027, with a nomination planned between May and October 2026. But for now, only the Greens are preparing to ratify it with this vote at the end of the year.
Internally, several voices consider the timing poorly chosen, noting that in December, media space is monopolized by the budget debate and that priorities should be given to the March municipal election campaign. Proposals to review the process in the absence of a joint primary, or to leave members free to choose their support, were rejected.
