“The New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) can win”, estimates Friday June 10 on franceinfo Julien Bayou, the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), two days before the first round of the legislative elections. But according to him, “It now depends on the mobilization of the greatest number.”
He considers that “on the common banner side, we have done the work”. Nearly 546 candidates were invested by Nupes, the coalition made up of La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, EELV, PCF and Génération.s., Julien Bayou repeats that “the challenge now is mobilization”. The latest Ipsos Sopra Steria poll for Radio France and France Télévisions predicts abstention at 54% compared to 51.3% during the 2017 legislative elections.
Julien Bayou ensures that his party “does not fade” because the Nupes “carries an extremely ambitious project on ecology”because “we can’t wait five more years of inaction”. He also boasts of a coalition “aligned, gathered, united and complementary” on different topics such as “increasing salaries, on repairing public services and on the implementation of the Paris agreements.”
According to him, the Nupes does not revolve around Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “The reality is that we have 650 measures, 650 extremely ambitious and that on the ground, this meets with immense hope”. Candidate for the legislative elections in the 5th district of Paris, he believes that this union of the left was “long overdue”. He hammers that “it is an immense hope that has risen”. However, Julien Bayou fears abstention: “You have to make it happen and make it happen at the polls.”
To convince voters, he argues that “We are not condemned to fate, to powerlessness. But that requires going to vote. It’s a simple ballot, it’s simple to slip a simple ballot into an envelope. But It can change everything. It can change everything”he repeats.