in Essonne, the war of the left will take place

A few days before the first round of the legislative elections, the left is divided in the 6th constituency of Essonne where the outgoing candidate, Jérôme Guedj, has refused the New Popular Front label.

In the 6^e constituency of Essonne, that of Massy, ​​Palaiseau or even Chilly-Mazarin, Jérôme Guedj, the outgoing PS deputy, will face among others his ex-substitute, who claims to be from the New Popular Front without actually having the nomination. A happy mess from which the other candidates hope to benefit during the 2024 legislative elections, on June 30 and July 7.

Jérôme Guedj was chosen to represent the alliance on the left but on his leaflets, no banner of the New Popular Front, simply logos of the PS, Place publique or even the Ecologists. The outgoing MP explained it on franceinfo Monday June 24, he does not want to associate himself with La France insoumise. Result: his ex-substitute, Hella Kribi-Romdhane goes against him and claims him. “Obviously I am the candidate of the New Popular Frontassures the regional advisor in Ile-de-France. First, I participated in building this dynamic”adds Hella Kribi-Romdhane, who also coordinates the Génération.s movement founded by Benoit Hamon. “I hoped that we could continue to support this partnership, this program which brings together the entire left. Place Publique supports this program and I have just learned that Dominique Strauss-Khan is ready to vote, even for LFI, to block to the extreme right and we would be the only territory where the incumbent refuses the program of the New Popular Front and the gathering that it embodies.

Hella Kribi Rhomdane also justifies her choice by the fact that this constituency has no chance, according to her, of being won by the National Rally. However, the party, which came first in the European elections, could reach the second round. His candidate Natacha Goupy doesn’t have time to talk to us, she says. That of Reconquête, Francine Monnier did not respond to our calls. The invisible far right, quips Chantal Lacarrière Farges, Les Républicains candidate. She wants to differentiate herself by embodying “a radical but reasoned right”, she says : “At the level of immigration, indeed we can have some similarities. We can perhaps have similarities on security. But on the other hand, on purchasing power, on education, on taxation, they tell us ‘We will do an audit’. We, at the Republican level, have already set figures, we have put forward ideas and we have proposed them.”

Will the LR candidate benefit from the absence of the outgoing majority in this constituency? Macronist local elected officials explain the strategy: the idea is to avoid a LFI/RN duel. For some, it is illusory. “There is never any question of really attacking the bourgeoisie, the big bosses!, regrets Bastien Vayssière, from Lutte Ouvrière. Obviously all the candidates talk about salaries, pensions, purchasing power but they all talk about it like miracle workers. For me, it is the workers who must lead society, they must wrest power from the capitalist class.” Bastien Vayssière wants to embody another path, like Alois Lang-Rousseau, the youngest candidate in the constituency, who wants to represent an alternative to the environmentalists.

6th district of Essonne

• Jérôme GUEDJ
  Union of the Left
• Francine MONNIER
  Reconquest
• Alois LANG-ROUSSEAU
  Various environmentalists
• Bastien VAYSSIÈRE
  Leftmost
• Chantal LACARRIERE FARGES
  The Republicans
• Natacha GOUPY
  National gathering
• Hella KRIBI – ROMDHANE
  Miscellaneous left