“We will have to bring out someone calming” according to a political scientist

Several candidates not reinvested by France Insoumise have decided to maintain their candidacy, such as Alexis Corbière, who will face Sabrina Ali Benali, candidate nominated under the banner of the New Popular Front. A situation which “will handicap the image” of the New Popular Front, according to Virginie Martin, political scientist and professor of political science at Kedge Business School. “In Seine-Saint-Denis, in this constituency, (…) LFI is very strong”, she emphasizes. Voters will therefore decide between the line led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and that supported by the “rebels”.

Unlike the Socialist Party, “LFI is not a mainstream party”, analyzes Virginie Martin. She describes LFI as a party “more verticalized, more autocratic”with at its head a “charismatic leader”but above all “cleaving”. According to her, to submit a candidacy for Matignon, the New Popular Front will have to “to bring out someone calming, capable of synthesizing” between all its components, “from Glucksmann to Poutou.”