The leader of La France insoumise spoke before the start of the May Day parade in Paris on Sunday.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged on Sunday May 1 the left-wing parties engaged in tight negotiations to conclude an agreement “tonight” for legislative purposes. “If the talks don’t end tonight, then it will never end”declared in the Parisian parade of May 1st the leader of La France insoumise, who came third in the presidential election. “We have to go back to the campaign, there are five weeks left”he insisted, believing that this May 1 could “to go down in history like that of 1936”.
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Backed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s 21.95% in the first round of the presidential election, LFI has launched bilateral discussions with the other left-wing parties in order to find an agreement for the legislative elections. “I think we are a few millimeters away from hearing each other”he assured, confident, while the Communist Party considered the proposals of La France insoumise insufficient.
The negotiations supposed to end on Sunday with the ecologists of EELV, the Communist Party (PCF), the PS and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), all below 5% in the April 10 ballot, are experiencing accelerations and successive blocks.
“It’s progressing, be sure that we are doing everything in our power to make it progress”assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday, cheered by the demonstrators on his arrival at Place de la République. “We are doing everything to move forward, not towards strengthening our group, (…) the subject is whether, yes or no, we have victory as our objective”.