The Socialist Party decided on Friday to suspend negotiations to create a left front in front of the National Assembly. The idea was to counterbalance the power of Liberal President Emmanuel Macron.
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The untamed France of Jean-Luc Melenchonthe dominant force of the French left since the presidential elections in April, this Saturday urged the traditional Socialist Party to progressive coalition for the French parliamentary elections in mid-June.
The suspension of negotiations decided by the Socialist Party on Friday was a pitcher of cold water for the creation of an unprecedented left front that would seek to reach a large group of deputies in the French National Assembly with the aim of counterweight to power of the recently re-elected president, the liberal Emmanuel Macron.
“Macron is weakened. The enlarged People’s Union stands at 11 million votes (sum of votes in the presidential elections of La France Insumisa, Greens, Communists, Socialists and other minor parties). Our victory is possible,” Mélenchon said in a published interview. this Saturday at the Jornal de Dimanche.
The left leader, who won in the first round on April 10 7.7 million votes (22%)just 420,000 votes behind far-right Marine Le Pen, the . criticized culture of “defeat” on the left and has warned that people “will not let themselves be robbed of a victory a second time” because the progressive camp is not united.
Melenchon, 70 years old, he wants to be prime minister thanks to an absolute majority of the Assembly (289 deputies out of 577) which, according to his calculations, could bring him the union of the left.
while a pact between rebels and environmentalists Close to closing, the agreement with the Socialists was unexpectedly put on hold Friday afternoon, hours after the party leadership itself published a note suggesting that the agreement was very likely to be concluded.
In addition to programmatic discrepancies, especially with regard to the European Union, the French press points out that a decisive point of friction is the distribution of candidates for seats, which would be proportional to the support achieved in the presidential elections, thus giving the Socialist Party (1.7%) with practically no candidates.
Source: EITB
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