In France, it is the return of summer universities this Thursday, August 25. The left is making its comeback, a dispersed comeback for the Nupes since the ecologists, the rebellious, the communists and the socialists are each organizing their own rout until Sunday.
Conferences and debates will be dedicated to the popular union, with a central question: what future for Nupes? After the legislative baptism of fire, the alliance faces its differences.
Among the socialists, we play the union thoroughly. The PS doesn’t really have a choice after the failure of the presidential election and wants to reassert itself by becoming a driving force behind Nupes.
” The socialist party has resumed colors within the framework of the Nupes. So we don’t need to think in terms of competition with other parties on the left, the idea is not to steal from their voters. The idea is to seek out voters who have abandoned us “says Corinne Narassiguin, number 2 of the Party.
The rebels in a leading position
For their part, the rebellious seek to establish their leadership within the union and want to impose themselves as the first opposition party. Hence an XXL cast at their summer university, with the presence of ministers Clément Beaune and Olivia Grégoire in particular.
” It is clear that with these debates, this places us in a form of centrality within the opposition to the left of the National Assembly. But it’s also a form of electoral arithmetic, of course, and then politics “, explains Ugo Bernalicis, deputy La France insoumise.
But arithmetic is not everything and the first cracks appear. For the European elections, environmentalists want to go it alone, explains the elected Marine Tondelier. ” The European elections are not a good format to work in the Nupes perimeter. I think today that the best solution, unconditionally, is to go it alone with an environmentalist list “, she says.
No question for environmentalists to remain in the shadow of the rebellious who hope, behind the scenes, to convince at least the socialists and the communists to make a common list in 2024.
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