Mélenchon wants to close his left front on Sunday

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Shortly after expressing their intentions, the socialists, who broke off negotiations last Friday, expressed their intention to renegotiate.

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Jean-Luc MelenchonThe leader of the France Insumisa, the left-wing power with the most votes in the last presidential election, has given himself until midnight this Sunday to reach a left-wing front for the parliamentary elections in mid-June.

Shortly after expressing their intentions, the socialists, who broke off negotiations last Friday, expressed their intention to renegotiate.

“We’re millimeters from it, we’ve made progress, if it doesn’t end tonight, it never will end. We’re just five weeks of the parliamentary elections,” Mélenchon said, in front of several hundred militants, from the Place de la République in Paris, minutes before the May 1 parade started.

Mélenchon, who finished in third place in the first round of the French presidential election, in which he won the 22% of the votesnegotiate with him Socialist Partythe Vegetable and the communists an agreement to form joint candidates with the aim of getting a large number of deputies in the French National Assembly to counter the power of the re-elected president, the centrist Emmanuel Macron.

The leftist leader, who has been received by his followers who shout “Prime Minister”has declared to have accepted and guaranteed all conditions set by the other parties own faction Fifteen deputies are needed), an offer he considers generous, taking into account the percentages of the presidential. While unruly France got 22%, the Greens got 4.7%, the Communists 2.3% and the Socialist Party 1.7%.

Likewise, it has guaranteed that in the program there will be no exit from the European Union in the next five years, although he has warned that France will “disobey” European rules and treaties that contradict what “the French people have decided”.

Shortly after his speech, the Secretary-General of the Socialists said, Olivier Fauré, has announced that it will resume negotiations this evening. With the Greens, the deal is very likely, according to their leaders. The biggest stumbling block now is the communists, because “went off the table”complained Mélenchon herself.


Source: EITB

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