Can France's left unite behind one candidate for the 2027 presidential race?
Five candidates are competing to lead France's social-democratic left in the 2027 presidential election. A cyberattack has disrupted the primary vote.
Five candidates are competing to lead France's social-democratic left into the 2027 presidential election. The primary vote meant to choose that leader has been disrupted by a cyberattack, raising the question of whether the left can unite behind a single candidate.
Can the left unite?
The issue was discussed in a France 24 video programme with guest Joseph Downing, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University in the United Kingdom.
The source does not say how the cyberattack affected the vote, who was behind it, or who the five candidates are. As the programme's theme suggests, the central question is whether the social-democratic left can settle on one shared candidate before the election rather than run in a fragmented field.
