Who will be the Prime Minister of the New Popular Front in the event of victory in the Legislative Elections? While the new alliance faces strong criticism, notably from the President of the Republic, two profiles and two opposing visions, those of François Ruffin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The essential
- Disputes continue to come to light within the New Popular Front. This Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the disagreement still concerns the method of designating the candidate for the post of Prime Minister, while a duel seems to emerge at the top of the alliance: Ruffin-Mélenchon.
- “Since we are in Montreuil, and here, what you call an election is in fact a primary of the left, I want to say my full support for my comrade and friend Alexis Corbière” launched François Ruffin this Monday, as if to definitively free from Melenchonism and take the lead in the eyes of the sympathizers of the New Popular Front.
- On the LFI side, and therefore Mélenchon, to occupy a hypothetical position of Prime Minister, we advocate the designation of a person by the left group which will have the most elected deputies. In the ranks of the PS, a vote from left-wing deputies is privileged.
- While La France insoumise seeks to ensure that a personality from its ranks is appointed, the socialists are undertaking an anti-Mélenchon strategy to distance him as much as possible from Matignon: “The logic is to make everyone vote to find a Prime Minister who corresponds to this collective choice, I am ready to play the game of democracy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We must choose a unifying and reassuring profile, not a divisive one,” indicated the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure. this Wednesday at the microphone of RTL.
- One thing is certain, the NFP now has a program. LFI, the PS, Place publique, Génération⸱s, EELV and the PCF have revealed the main measures they will put in place if they manage to win the legislative elections and obtain a majority in the National Assembly. The details are to be found by clicking here.
- The NFP will field only one candidate in each constituency on June 30. The distribution is as follows: 229 for LFI, 175 for the PS, 92 for EELV and 50 for the PCF. Consult our map and our search engine to find out which of these parties will be running in your riding.
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21:15 – Fiché S, candidate Raphaël Arnault defends himself: “This does not represent a conviction”
While it was revealed that he was on S file, the candidate of the New Popular Front Raphaël Arnault defended himself on Wednesday evening at the microphone of BFMTV, insisting in particular on the fact that being on S file is first of all information “which is not intended to be made public”. “This does not represent a conviction,” he also insisted, denying himself of being a violent man. He also revealed that he had been “threatened on a daily basis” for “six years [qu’il] fight against the extreme right”, adding that his family, his work and even his home were also targeted.
20:16 – Attal-Bardella debate: Manuel Bompard finally appointed to represent the New Popular Front
Jean-Luc Mélenchon immediately thanked TF1, indicating that he would not debate with Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella. TF1 confirmed this evening that it is ultimately the boss of the rebels, Manuel Bompard who will represent the New Popular Front on June 25 in the big debate organized by the channel in prime time, with Gabriel Attal (Renaissance) and Jordan Bardella (RN) facing to him.
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5 days before the first round of the legislative elections, TF1 is organizing the debate between representatives of the 3 blocs:
Gabriel Attal – presidential majority
Jordan Bardella – National Rally
Manuel Bompard – New Popular Front pic.twitter.com/8WEhmll3aS— TF1Info (@TF1Info) June 19, 2024
14:31 – The NFP program, a financial pit? The left disagrees
106 billion euros more spent. This is what it would cost to implement all the program of the New Popular Front, according to Valérie Rabault, outgoing PS deputy and invested by the left-wing coalition. In an interview given to Echoesthe former first vice-president of the National Assembly notably estimated at 23 billion euros the increase in salaries of civil servants, apprentices and interns, 10 billion for the construction of 200,000 homes as well as 5 billion for aid supplements paid to the most deprived.
However, these calculations sparked an outcry internally, with La France insoumise estimating, in a press release, that this “does not correspond to the costing of the program”. The cost could be higher, according to rebellious outgoing MP Aurélie Trouvé, who however adds that the left is planning 120 billion euros in additional tax revenue.
150 measures implemented over three successive periods. This is the guideline of the program of the New Popular Front, presented Friday June 14, 2024. LFI, EELV, the PS, the PCF have agreed on numerous commitments that they wish to implement if they obtain the majority in the National Assembly, on July 7, on the evening of the 2e round of legislative elections. This program would be implemented in three phases: first a series of decisions taken within 15 days after coming to power, then another within 100 days following the start of their governance and, finally, some during the following months.
It goes without saying that the New Popular Front has access to its main promises on purchasing power, which it intends to improve. For this, numerous increases will be decreed: that of the minimum wage to 1,600 euros net, that of the minimum contributory level to the level of the minimum wage, that of the minimum old age to the level of poverty only, that of the AAH to the level of the minimum wage, that of APL of 10%, while indexing salaries to inflation. At the same time, pension, unemployment and RSA reforms will be repealed.
Furthermore, faced with soaring energy bills (electricity, gas, fuel), the New Popular Front promises to remove the 10% tax on energy bills, to cancel the planned increase in the price of gas , to make the first KwH of electricity free and to put an end to electricity, heat and gas cuts.
Concerning Education, the left announces that it wants to repeal the “shock of knowledge” desired by Emmanuel Macron, preserve the educational freedom of teachers, work on total free schooling (Canteen, supplies, transport, extracurricular), but also reduce the number of students per class is 19, abolish Parcoursup, introduce meals for 1 euro at Crous.
Long awaited on the burning subject of international diplomacy, the left alliance revealed its position. On Ukraine, she wishes to maintain the delivery of arms and defend the sovereignty of the Ukrainian people, continue the seizure of the oligarchs’ assets in the banks and send peacekeepers, in particular to secure nuclear power plants.
As for the thorny subject of Israel and Gaza, the New Popular Front proposes to break with support for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister), and to enforce the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which evokes a risk of genocide. He also wishes to act for the release of hostages held since the massacres, described as “terrorist”, by Hamas, and for the release of Palestinian political prisoners. He promises to support the International Criminal Court in its prosecution of Hamas leaders and the Israeli government and calls for immediate recognition of the State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel on the basis of UN resolutions, with the holding of elections in Palestine.
Who are the New Popular Front candidates?
The New Popular Front coalition brings together several left-wing parties including La France insoumise (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party (PCF) and Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), in addition to allied parties . The agreement on the distribution of candidates across the territory plans to send rebellious candidates to 229 constituencies, socialists to 175 others, ecologists to 92 territories and communists to the remaining 50.
Each constituency will therefore only present one candidate for the left, regardless of the political party to which he belongs. The agreement concluded by the members of the New Popular Front gives the advantage to La France insoumise, which has more than 50 more constituencies compared to the Socialist Party. The distribution was made according to the results of previous legislative elections and the chances of each party to win in the different constituencies against other left-wing forces, but also and above all against the presidential majority, the right and the extreme right. Note that in many constituencies, it is the outgoing deputies who are reinvested.