Get organized urgently. Several political figures called on the left-wing parties to unite in order to limit the score of the far-right parties, after Emmanuel Macron took the decision to dissolve the National Assembly, Sunday June 9, an hour after the announcement of the results of the European elections in France.
Officials from La France insoumise sent a “meeting proposal” Monday “afternoon” to others “political formations of the Nupes” (the PS, the PCF, the Ecologists and Generations), for “work towards unity and clarity” in view of the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, assured the party coordinator, Manuel Bompard, on the social network
Towards a “popular front” on the left? The rebellious deputy François Ruffin took up the name of the coalition which brought the left to power in 1936 on the social network “agreement with Mr. Macron’s party”. In a message on X, the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, asks “only one candidate on the left in each constituency”.
“There was another way” than dissolution, according to Yaël Braun-Pivet. The President of the National Assembly estimated Monday on France 2 that“there was another way, which was the path of a coalition, of a government pact”. For his part, Emmanuel Macron declared on “I have confidence in the ability of the French people to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations.”
Jordan Bardella candidate for the post of Prime Minister, but not in the legislative elections. The president of the National Rally will be “our candidate to go to Matignon” but he will not himself be a candidate during the early legislative elections, announced Monday the vice-president of the party, Sébastien Chenu, who believes that “Jordan Bardella was elected MEP” and that he therefore “already the popular anointing”. For these elections, the RN will not make an alliance with other parties, but will propose an electoral platform which “will address everyone outside political parties”he added.
Renaissance will meet on Tuesday to decide on nominations. A meeting of the party’s executive office is scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m., franceinfo learned from a parliamentary source. The president’s camp is ready to invest socialist, environmentalist or Republican deputies, on the condition that they subscribe to the project of the presidential majority. Emmanuel Macron will return this week to the French to present this project, according to his entourage.
The RN received 31.36% of the votes. The list led by Jordan Bardella comes well ahead in the European elections, according to the final results published Monday by the Ministry of the Interior. Renaissance placed in second position with 14.6% of the votes, just ahead of the PS-Place Publique list which obtained 13.83% of the votes. France insoumise ranks fourth with 9.89% of the votes. The Republican list won 7.24% of the votes, while the Ecologists won 5.5% of the votes.