“Uniting the left means ensuring the victory of the RN”, believes Jean-Louis Bourlanges, outgoing MoDem deputy

The main left-wing parties and movements including the PS, Place publique, LFI, the Ecologists, are calling “to the constitution of a new popular front” with the wish “to support unique candidates from the first round”. But Jean-Louis Bourlanges believes that this will not work. “Uniting the left means ensuring the victory of the RN”, estimates Tuesday June 11 on France Inter, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, outgoing MoDem deputy for Hauts-de-Seine. He will not stand again in the early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

According to him, “the only solution to avoid the success of the National Rally is a concentration of the moderate right, the center and the moderate left.” The outgoing MP pleads for “a broad consensus between forces which agree on Europe, on representative democracy, on the social market economy, in agreement on the welfare state, in agreement on secularism”, which are “united on the essential values”. Jean-Louis Bourlanges thinks that this is what allowed Emmanuel Macron to be elected in 2017. His strategy “faced with an increasingly strong rise of the RN and an increasingly strong rise of the left of the left, behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon”paid off seven years ago, “but didn’t work on Sunday” during the European elections.

However, he adds, Valérie Hayer, head of the presidential majority list “was right to say that between Raphaël Glucksmann and her, there were a lot of affinities”even if “it was tactically clumsy.” Jean-Louis Bourlanges regrets that the president of the Republicans refuses “any form of coalition” with Emmanuel Macron. He also finds it unfortunate that a part of the left that he considers moderate “rushes into this myth, very seductive, very powerful of the people of the left”.