If the parties of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) make a common list for the Europeans of 2024, “we will make fewer elected officials than if we value our diversity”, assured the European Ecology-The Greens (EELV) MEP Yannick Jadot, Wednesday August 31 on franceinfo. The Europeans are a proportional vote. The lists which have obtained at least 5% of the votes benefit from a number of seats proportional to their number of votes.
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“I am a strong supporter of proportional voting”affirmed the former head of the EELV list at the 2009 Europeans, and “not just so that there is good representation, which is essential, but because it totally changes the way we do politics”. According to him, “when you are in a proportional election, you know that you are going to have to make coalitions, you know that you are going to have to make compromises, good compromises, but compromises”.
“With La France insoumise (LFI), in particular, we have a certain number of differences on Europe and on international politics”, he recalled. Thereby, “the proportional vote will make it possible to promote what the rebels think of Europe and international politics, what the socialists think and what the ecologists think”. The French Communist Party (PCF) is also part of Nupes.
Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon the one who best embodies ecology? ➡️ “No. We can outbid, radicalize the discourse. But my political line is not to flatter the convinced”, says Yannick Jadot, who does not want a common list for the Europeans. pic.twitter.com/2qzR02An2h
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The idea of a union of the left at the next European elections was put on the table in early August by LFI deputy Manuel Bompard. It is far from arousing enthusiasm in the ranks of environmentalists, who came third in the 2019 Europeans, with 13.48% of the vote. During this election, the list of La France insoumise came fifth with 6.31% of the vote.