A strong image of the legislative elections: the left united at the convention of the Nupes (New popular, ecological and social union) in Aubervilliers on Saturday May 7. Almost all the party representatives were on stage to listen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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Fervor in the audience, but also on stage, during the Nupes convention. Jean-Luc Mélenchon ends his speech and takes Julien Bayou, the boss of the Greens, in his arms for a long time, then Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS. The reunion with the socialists is warm. A few weeks ago, this image was unimaginable: representatives of socialists, ecologists and communists meeting together with the rebels. The president of Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Troussel, had not seen the rebellious leader at a meeting for a long time. “I think the last time I heard it was at Le Mans in 2005.he recalls. I found a lot of qualities, I found that he had precisely found the words to speak to the whole left.
A good agreement that may surprise. Marine Tondelier, spokesperson for the ecologist Yannick Jadot during the campaign which attacked Mélenchon harshly, particularly in Europe, overplayed the good atmosphere a little.
“We are left-wing people, so we are like that. We are united, we are in sharing and we are super nice people.”
Marine Tondelier, EELV spokespersonat franceinfo
But Manuel Bompard, the campaign manager of the Insoumis, has his feet firmly on the ground. “For it to be historic, you have to make sure you win, otherwise write history to write history, it’s not very interestinghe explains. We never remember the finalists of the World Cup, we only remember the victors! Especially since there were absent for the photo at the end of the meeting. The communist Fabien Roussel having slipped away before the arrival of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the two former presidential candidates therefore did not meet on stage.