Debate of the day
Should the French left unite to survive?
Audio 29:30
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the May Day parade in Paris.
AFP - THOMAS COEX
By: Anne Corpet Follow
1 min
The rebellious and the ecologists ended up agreeing last night around the creation of a “New popular ecological and social union”.
A historic and exceptional agreement hailed the leaders of the two parties. It is now a question of rallying the socialist and communist parties, that is what the voters want if we are to believe the polls. socialist refuse to run under the melenchonist banner.
After failing to come together before the first round of the presidential election, can the left now come together very quickly?
Could such a union lead to a victory and therefore to cohabitation?
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Conversely, would the failure of a rally mean the death of the French left as predicted by supporters of the union?
To discuss
:
Christophe Sente
, doctor in social and political sciences and scientific collaborator at the Cevipol (Centre for the study of political life) of the Free University of Brussels, author of the book
La Gauche entre la vie et la mort.
A history of ideas within social democracy
, Le Bord de l'eau editions, 2021.
Christophe
Batardy
historian, author of the book
The common program of the left (1972-1977), it was the time of the programs
, editions Presse universitaire Bordeaux.
Élisa Steier
, associate professor of history, author of the book
The genesis of the plural left 1993-1997
, editions Presses universitaires de Rennes.
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