NUPES. It is not yet installed in the Assembly that already the Nupes encounters difficulties. While Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for forming a single group in the hemicycle, the PS, the PCF and EELV refuse to merge into a single force.
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[Mis à jour le 20 juin 2022 à 16h04] No, there will be no Nupes group in the National Assembly. The proposal formulated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the beginning of the afternoon the day after the legislative elections did not meet with the expected success. No sooner had the rebellious judged that “the Nupes should be constituted as a single group in Parliament, so that without any possible discussion, it is established who leads the opposition in the country”, that the other left-wing coalition members opposed the idea. Socialists, Communists and Ecologists want to remain identifiable under their colors in the National Assembly and cling to the Nupes electoral agreement which provides only for an “intergroup for our common positions”, recalls the management of EELV in BFM TV. The proposal of the leader of the rebellious “is not at all what was agreed in our agreement, there was never any question of us being based in a single group”, got carried away for its part the direction of the Communist Party.
Does this clash reflect the fragility of the Nupes now that the legislative elections have passed? It is clear that the left alliance will not always be unanimous in the National Assembly, but this is another fear revealed by both the LFI proposal and the reactions of the other left forces: the fear of a hegemony of the rebellious, already in the majority. A fear that it is not good to feed, so Jean-Luc Mélenchon clarified the content of his proposal on Twitter. He hopes to reassure by explaining that he does not want “the dissolution of parties but the formation of a common parliamentary group”. And Jean-Luc Mélenchon to add: “Each one will of course be able to form a separate delegation to the National Assembly as we already do each in the European Parliament”.
I did not propose the dissolution of the parties but the formation of a common parliamentary group. Each will of course be able to form a separate delegation to the National Assembly as we already do each in the European Parliament. pic.twitter.com/OG76DUr4Q7
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 20, 2022
No offense to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and LFI, there is little chance of seeing the 131 deputies of the Nupes sit under this banner. What question the viability of the alliance but also the strength of the opposition it will constitute against the presidential majority. Yet initially, the black-and-white written agreement seemed to suit everyone. “We will each have our own group and we will meet in an intergroup to weigh more strongly on very emblematic bills”, still recalled Antoine Léaument, the digital communicator of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on BFM TV yesterday. So why this last minute change? In addition to illustrating the disagreements that persist between the left-wing parties, it gives food for thought to the majority, to the right and to left-wing dissidents, one of whom was already criticizing on the non-stop news channel, the wishes of the elected Nupes of “all want to pull the blanket to them”.
A motion of censure already promised by the Nupes
In the National Assembly, the Nupe will be made up of different groups of rebellious deputies, socialists, ecologists and communists. They are not yet installed in the hemicycle that already the LFI deputies promise to table a motion of censure against the Borne government on June 28, the day of the first session of the new Assembly. The goal is none other than to remove Elisabeth Borne from her duties as Prime Minister and force Emmanuel Macron to appoint a new head of government. The departure of the Prime Minister from Matignon is the first objective of the rebellious camp. On June 20, the day after the legislative electionsthe deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, Manuel Bompard estimated on BFM TV “Normally, Madame Borne should leave. The government as it was constituted can no longer function. [Sa démission], would be the political logic. It no longer has the political legitimacy to govern.”
What result for Nupes in the 2022 legislative elections?
According to the final results published overnight by the Ministry of the Interior, 131 deputies from the Nupes will now sit in the hemicycle. Conversely, Together!, presidential coalition, won 245 seats… In detail, there would be among the Nupes deputies 75 deputies from LFI, 30 from the PS, 15 from EELV and 10 from the PCF.
The duality between the executive and the left will have punctuated the legislative campaign. The strategy of Nupes was to assert its program in relation to the proposals and policies of the President of the Republic. An opposition that gave rise to lively discussions on purchasing power and the increase in VAT envisaged by the government according to the rebellious or on the issues facing global warming in the face of Emmanuel Macron’s “climate inaction” denounced by Nupes. A way of appearing in the eyes of voters as the best alternative for these legislative elections. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also called on all voters who did not want Emmanuel Macron’s policy for five more years during the inter-round period to choose Nupes as the opposition. A call relatively heard but reduced by the surprise weight of the RN in the 2nd round with 89 deputies for the party of Marine Le Pen.
Who are the Nupe deputies?
The left had already succeeded in having four of its candidates elected in the first ballot, all of them are rebellious: Alexis Corbière in Seine-Saint-Denis and Danièle Obono, Sophie Chikirou and Sarah Legrain in Paris. Opposite, the presidential majority only obtained one deputy from the Phillipist Horizons party, Yannick Favennec, after the first round. The Nupes was also already certain to qualify three other candidates, the only ones running in their constituency after the withdrawal of their opponent: Soumya Bourouaha, Clémentine Autain and Elie Califer.
In the second round, the Nupes notably succeeded in its bet to elect new faces such as the figure of the conflict of the chambermaids of the Ibis hotel in Batignolles, Rachel Kéké in the 7th district of Val de Marne but also rising figures from LFI like Clémence Guetté in the district of Créteil and party executives like Adrien Quattenens (1st district of the North), Clémentine Autain (11th district of Paris), Ugo Bernalicis (2nd district of the North), Raquel Garrido (5th district of Seine-Saint-Denis) or Mathilde Panot (10th district of Val de Marne), who became last winter during the presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon president of the LFI group in the Assembly.
On the EELV side, note the elections of Julien Bayou and Sandrine Rousseau following their success in Paris, Sandra Regol n°2 of the party and winner in Bas-Rhin and Delphine Batho in Deux-Sèvres. At the PS, Jérôme Guedj took his revenge on Amélie de Montchalin in the 6th district of Essonne and Olivier Faure was re-elected in Seine-et-Marne. Valérie Rabault, who was at the head of the PS parliamentary group in the Assembly during the last mandate, also imposed herself in the Tarn et Garonne. Finally, at the PC, note the re-elections of Fabien Roussel (20th district of the North) and André Chassaigne (5th district of Puy de Dôme).
Is Nupes a political party?
The New Popular Ecological and Social Union, or Nupes, is the left-wing coalition that shook up the legislative elections. Bringing together the rebellious, carriers and majority within the alliance, the socialists, the ecologists and the communists, it gives new life to the plural left of the legislative elections of 1997. The Nupes hopes to achieve the same feat as 25 years ago in obtaining an absolute majority in the National Assembly this Sunday, June 19. Be careful, however, not to consider the Nupes as the merger of left-wing political parties because no formation wishes to dissolve in this nebula. Manuel Bompard, rebellious and negotiator for the conclusion of the alliance repeated on June 14 on RFI that Nupes was not a political party but a coalition: once in the Assembly, each deputy will sit in the group of his left. However, the left hopes to remain united long after the legislative elections because the coalition “is intended to last”, according to Bompard.