The Nupes became the first political opposition force in the National Assembly, on the evening of the second round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 19. The different parties of the left-wing coalition obtained 141 MP seats for the next term, according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde and parliamentary channels. Insubordinate France and its allies had qualified 388 candidates for the second round, with 25.78% of the vote on June 12.
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In detail, La France insoumise obtained 79 seats, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts 25 seats, the Socialist Party 25 seats and finally the Communist Party, 12 seats. Ecologists therefore find a parliamentary group five years after having lost it.
In 2017, La France insoumise, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party had left in dispersed order in the legislative elections, which had seen the Macronist wave sweep over the National Assembly. LFI had obtained 17 seats at the Palais-Bourbon, against 28 for the PS, 15 for the PCF and none for EELV.
After having campaigned in a united manner, the different parties of this alliance will now sit independently in the National Assembly. The Nupes is a “electoral agreement” destined to last, but each political formation will have “his group”assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon in early May, “otherwise it can’t work”.
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Each of the parties will therefore have a parliamentary group, except the Communists, who had about fifty candidates within the framework of this coalition built after the presidential election. All the deputies will be in opposition to the government of Elisabeth Borne, which failed to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly. The executive could therefore be forced to rely on the votes of the Republican deputies to pass its laws.