The party La France Insumisa (LFI) is preparing meetings with left-wing political organizations and parties to create a common front for the June 12-19 elections, including the historic Socialist Party (PS).
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, the third most popular option in the recent French presidential elections, has already maintained contacts with the main environmentalists, communist parties or the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).
According to sources quoted by French television BFMTV, a meeting with the Socialist Party is scheduled for Wednesday. The key was a vote in the PS National Council that passed a resolution proposing a dialogue with left-wing forces ahead of the elections.
Wednesday’s meeting is a first step towards a possible rapprochement and Proposals such as retirement at 60 will be on the tableDisobedience to European treaties, price freezes or the VI. Republic.
That same Monday, the El Compromiso movement, led by former socialist minister Arnaud Montebourg, announced its intention to join the Popular Union of Mélenchon, a forum proposed by Mélenchon to facilitate the participation of figures outside La Francia Insumisa. to support his candidacy for the presidency and promote a re-establishment of the French left.
Students, members of social movements, artists, trade unionists and left-wing parties take part in it. The forum is chaired by Aurélie Trouvé, who has left the presidency of the citizens’ organization Attac to take office.
Mélenchon’s party, a historic figure on the French left, comes to these general elections with strong bargaining power.
Third in the presidential election with 21.95 of the votes that of Melenchón is configured as the third most important political force in Francevery close to the extreme right, led by Marine Le Pen.
The number of votes obtained in the first ballot gives Mélenchon a negotiating advantage over his opponents, who are also on the left. Communists and socialists who have been excluded from the electoral landscape in recent years.
In addition, the former candidate is aware of the importance of his votes for Macron’s election. The president himself acknowledged this after the elections, saying that many of his constituents wanted to prevent the rise of the extreme right.
This once again puts Mélenchon and his party in an important voting position ahead of the new elections. In contrast to a solid electorate close to the traditional unions and workers’ parties, Mélenchon has mobilized a renewed discourse on the left.
Putting important issues such as climate change and environmental protection, which are crucial in the current election discussions in France, on the agenda, the candidate of the new socialism finds the niche of the candidate of the new socialism in young university students and first-time voters.
The parliamentary elections on June 12th and 19th are crucial for Macron to be able to push through his program for a “more independent France” and his “social and ecological” project “based on work”, as he promised on Sunday morning.
A majority of French people, according to two polls published shortly after his re-election they don’t want the center president to have a parliamentary majorityas enjoyed in the House of Commons since 2017 and which would open the door to “living together”.
Without a majority, “he can do nothing. The king is naked,” Dominique Rousseau, professor of constitutional law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, told AFP. Once elected by the President, the Prime Minister determines the direction of government.
France already knew this model in the past. In 1997, Chirac appointed the socialist Lionel Jospin as prime minister. The conservative president had previously been prime minister to his socialist predecessor, François Mitterrand, between 1986 and 1988.
*With information from Europa Press and AFP.