It is indeed LFI which presents itself as the party around which the left is united. The rebels have significantly more candidates invested than the socialists.
3:24 p.m. – Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the guest on 8 p.m. on France 2
Since Monday evening, political guests have multiplied on the television news sets. This Wednesday evening, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the main figure of La France Insoumise, will be the guest on the 8 p.m. news on France 2.
15:24 – Olivier Faure wants to “work to get out of” the “chaos” that he attributes to Emmanuel Macron
The First Secretary of the Socialist Party explains that he does not want to “comment” on Emmanuel Macron’s midday press conference, and accuses him of being “the cause of the current chaos”. Olivier Faure denounces “the historical untruths, the fake news, the caricatures of a president who mobilizes all means of communication while explaining that he is not campaigning”. His post on
2:57 p.m. – Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy announces he is a candidate for the legislative elections
Emmanuel Grégoire presents himself to the legislative elections for the 7th district of Paris. In a post on associative and union.” He calls for a “start” from everyone affirming that “the left can and must win […] with clarity and consistency, categorically refusing any compromise with anti-Semitism, racism and rejection of the other.”
Emmanuel Grégoire is running for the 7th district of Paris and will notably have as his opponent the former Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, who announced yesterday that he would run “freely” and no longer with the Renaissance label.
2:57 p.m. – Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy announces he is a candidate for the legislative elections
Emmanuel Grégoire is running in the legislative elections for the 7th district of Paris. In a post on A left which “must “open the way” and “build common convergences with civil society, the associative and trade union left.” The socialist also calls for a “start” from everyone and affirms that “the left can and must win […] with clarity and consistency, categorically refusing any compromise with anti-Semitism, racism and rejection of the other.”
Emmanuel Grégoire is running for the 7th district of Paris and will notably have as his opponent the former Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune who is representing himself “freely”, and no longer with the Renaissance label, who announced his candidacy yesterday.
13:11 – The new Popular Front has found an “agreement in principle” on constituencies
In a letter addressed to its members, the PS indicated this Wednesday that the left-wing forces had found an “agreement in principle” on the distribution of constituencies during the legislative elections. According to this letter, LFI will present 229 candidates, the PS will have 175, EELV will have 92 and the PCF will have 50. “The essential work on the program is still under discussion”, according to the socialists, who affirm that it there will be “no concession on our values”.
12:06 – “Macron is sinking into the strategy of chaos”: the reaction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
On “Macron is sinking into the strategy of chaos and the war of religions to brutalize the election. Macron is drowning in his flood of words, insults and contempt against those who do not share his opinion. The French have already said that they had had enough. They will confirm it by electing a majority of the new Popular Front,” he declared.
11:56 – The left alliance wants to “impoverish the country” castigates Macron
The president defends the economic and ecological results of his 7 years in power and attacks the left on its desire to abandon nuclear power as well as on its taxation policy which would lead “to an impoverishment of France” and which is not part of “budgetary seriousness”. He also confirms wanting “eight new nuclear reactors” for France.
11:41 – Emmanuel Macron calls on left-wing elected officials to work with the majority
While calling for votes for Renaissance candidates, the head of state invites other elected officials to work together after the elections. “I am convinced that social democrats, radicals, ecologists (…) republicans (…) can work with” the leaders of the majority, he explains. However, at no time does he mention a unity government.
11:37 – LFI “creates sometimes constant disorder” in the National Assembly, judge Emmanuel Macron
From the first sentences of his press conference in Paris, the President of the Republic points out the attitude of certain deputies of “France Insoumise” sowing “disorder” in the National Assembly. He adds that the victory of the RN in the European Union is “a political fact that we cannot ignore”. And then evokes the different alliances on the right and the left, judging that on both sides, they were incapable of reaching an agreement.
11:13 – “This is not how the left should be built” assures Stéphane Le Foll
The socialist mayor of Le Mans calls on the groups working to establish the new Popular Front to respect the “vote which fell on Raphaël Glucksmann’s list”. Guest of the Public Senate this Wednesday morning, he said he was not opposed to a left-wing party gathering while emphasizing that this solution was “a quick save” which would inevitably lead to new discussions after the legislative elections. According to Stéphane Le Foll, it is certainly necessary to do everything possible to beat the extreme right but “that is not how the left should be built”, he said. He then explained that he was not participating in the debates between the socialists, the ecologists, the rebels and the communists, specifying nonetheless that at the moment, there was no agreement on the program for the legislative elections, nor on the distribution of constituencies.
The socialist who indicates that he has somewhat detached himself from his political party judges that Emmanuel Macron “put everyone under the obligation to resolve a problem that he himself caused, in three weeks.” Also questioned about the LR/RN alliance, Stéphane le Foll declared that “a page of history was turning […] for the sole benefit of the National Rally” and that Eric Ciotti “had ceded the right to the National Rally”.
10:19 – Philippe Poutou and the NPA join the new “Popular Front”
The New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) will join the new “Popular Front”, to “face the extreme right and Macron” announces Philippe Poutou on X. In a press release, the extreme left party announces that it has held a meeting with its leadership on Tuesday and “decided unanimously to respond positively to the call of the 7 organizations which initiated the Popular Front.”
The NPA is committed to sending its activists “to help the Popular Front candidates win and reverse the deadly dynamic in which we find ourselves.” Because the condition of “victory against the far right and Macron” will only be achieved at the cost of “a broad mobilization of the population, in particular businesses, working-class neighborhoods and youth. The trade union movement, environmental struggles , the feminist movement, the movement in solidarity with Palestine, the decolonial and anti-racist struggles, must deeply nourish the program of the Popular Front” they affirmed, before concluding with: “Today the emergency is urgent. unit […]let’s join the New Popular Front”.
09:45 – “Those who are choosy are irresponsible” condemns Ian Brossat
On France info, the communist senator warns of “the peril of seeing the National Rally, Mr. Bardella and his friends […] seize Matignon tomorrow” and condemns the recent declarations which denounce the presence of La France insoumise in the new popular front wanted by all the main left-wing forces. “Those who are choosy are irresponsible, because they don’t see the risk we have in front of us”, he denounced before adding “if faced with that, we are not able to come together, it is because we are truly incapable “.
“We want to carry out a program of social and ecological ruptures to build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and combat the racist project of the far right,” details a joint press release published this Monday evening. The parties undertake to support single candidates “from the first round” in each constituency for the upcoming election. “They will carry a breaking program detailing the measures to be taken in the first 100 days of the government of the new popular front,” explains the press release. With the sole objective: “to govern to respond to democratic, ecological, social and peace emergencies”.
Several left-wing figures, such as Raphaël Glucksmann, refused to put the Nupes back in place during the day. Guest of 8 p.m. on France 2, the candidate of PS-Place Publique in the European elections, who received nearly 14% of the votes in France, spoke about the conditions for a union of the left. “We are not going to remake the Nupes, there has been a reversal of the balance of power since,” he commented before listing several conditions for a union. “Unwavering support for European construction, (and) Ukraine resistance”, “a repeal of the pension reform, unemployment insurance and the immigration law”, as well as “an acceleration of the ecological transition and a rejection of the brutalization of political life.” If they are not met, “we don’t do it,” he assured.
His proposals were undoubtedly heard. LThe “new popular front” has all the features of a Nupes 2. With the same parties and the same program? Many questions remain unanswered: the differences over the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the degree of involvement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon… The national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, assured that the principle of the alliance is established but that all the programmatic commitments are still to be resolved.