François Ruffin
French journalist and politician · France · Journalists · Born 1975 · age 51
Read more often than usual, most of all on 15 October.
3.9 times the usual readers on 15 October. 5,414 readers on 15 October, against about 1,403 a day before the rise.
A satirist and filmmaker who turned a documentary about corporate cruelty into a seat in the National Assembly, then spent seven years inside France's left splintering around him.
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François Ruffin founded the satirical quarterly Fakir and directed the 2016 film Merci patron!, which helped spark the Nuit debout movement that spring. A year later he created the regional party Picardie Debout and won Somme's 1st constituency with backing from La France Insoumise, the Greens, and the Communists - then joined the LFI group in the Assembly, though he often broke with the line. By 2024 he was central to forging the New Popular Front alliance, but mid-campaign he severed ties with LFI and Jean-Luc Mélenchon during what he called a purge of dissenters. He scraped back into his seat and crossed to the Ecologist Group, carrying the tools of the gadfly into a parliament where no coalition holds the room.
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