• The participants in the May Day demonstration are hoping for a third social round during the legislative elections.

  • In Montpellier where Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained record scores in the first round of the presidential elections, the procession was full of hopes.

  • But the union of the left is far from being acquired in the prefecture of Hérault during the legislative elections.

Around 1,200 people took part in the May Day parade in Montpellier.

“This event is the way to allow people to express themselves, in particular the retirement project at 65 years old.

This is what risks cementing the dispute in the coming months, hopes Bruno.

There is a need to be heard The labor and wage movement is sluggish because of Macron's determination to muzzle them.

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“We find ourselves with a President of the Republic who has already announced the color between retirement at 65 and gifts to employers, evokes Sébastien Boudesocque, of the CGT.

We hope that there will be a majority of elected leftists in the National Assembly.

But we know very well that with all the lobbies, without social mobilization, there will be no social progress.

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“Will Mélenchon put his energy at the service of the rally on the left?

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Placed between two elections, presidential and legislative, this international day of struggle for the rights of workers had a particular tone this year.

In particular in Montpellier, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained his highest total of votes (40.73%) in a city of more than 200,000 inhabitants in the first round of the presidential elections.

“Macron was elected by default, by rejection of the far right.

It is important to show that we are always mobilized in the street and at the polls to win new rights, evokes Julien Colet, who should represent La France insoumise on the first constituency of Hérault.

If we have a majority in the National Assembly, then Jean-Luc Mélenchon could be appointed Prime Minister and we could apply our program of social justice, ecology,

more democracy.

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Five years earlier, the leader of LFI had already come out on top in the first round of the presidential elections, but to a lesser extent (31.46%).

This had only had a moderate impact on the legislative elections where only Muriel Ressiguier (in the 2nd constituency) had prevented the grand slam of La République en Marche in the Hérault.

The left-wing candidates unveiled this week in the department

On Sunday the PS, LFI and other representatives of left-wing parties were in the same procession.

but if national agreements are signed for the union, it is far from being recorded in Montpellier.

“Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is responsible for the gathering given his score in the first round, will he put his energy at the service of the gathering?

asks former MP Christian Assaf (PS).

To succeed in this gathering, there must be neither alignment, nor renunciation, nor erasure.

When we were in charge, we created the plural left which allowed the ecologists, the communists, the radicals, to be able to express their differences in a majority.

If Mélenchon is not capable of this effort, then there will be no gathering”.

On the left, the legislative candidates in Montpellier and Hérault should be known during the week.

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