Marine Tondelier

She was designated the party's candidate for the left primary on 8 December 2025. She is named in the race for the joint left nominee for the 2027 French presidential election, to be chosen on 11 October 2026.

Career

Tondelier graduated from Sciences Po Lille in 2009 with a master's in healthcare management and worked as a parliamentary assistant and in air-quality regulation. She first ran in the Hénin-Beaumont municipal election in 2009, contested legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency from 2012 to 2022 and was elected to the Hauts-de-France regional council in 2021. She became national secretary of the Ecologists on 10 December 2022 with 90.8% of the vote. In December 2025 party members designated her for the primary with 86% of votes cast.

Positions

Wikipedia reports that she strongly supports Ukraine, criticises pacifism that equates victim and aggressor, and has described the situation in Gaza as genocide and ecocide. She calls herself a peacekeeper of the left. The primary of 11 October 2026 is between her and François Ruffin of Debout!; La France Insoumise and the Communist Party declined to take part.

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