French legislative: LFI and EELV find an agreement
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the May Day parade in Paris.
AFP - THOMAS COEX
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La France insoumise and Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) concluded an agreement on the night of May 1 to 2 for the June legislative elections, while negotiations are progressing with the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party.
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“
If the discussions do not end tonight, then it will never end
”, had launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon this Sunday afternoon during
the Parisian parade of May 1st
.
If the negotiations for the June legislative elections continue with the PS and the PCF, they have finally led to an agreement with Europe Écologie-Les Verts.
The apotheosis of a day which saw the left parties meet in a good-natured atmosphere rarely observed after years of disputes.
The Federal Council of EELV validated the agreement negotiated over the past two weeks, by 84 votes for, 10 against, 8 white ballots and one person who did not participate in the vote.
This agreement notably allocates 100 constituencies for the environmental pole, according to sources close to the negotiations.
With the exception of the small Generations movement which signed an agreement with LFI on Thursday, the negotiations between LFI and EELV were the most advanced of the bilateral discussions initiated by the Insoumis with each of the left forces, after the 22% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential one.
Last compromises
The weekend made it possible to make the final compromises: around the relationship with Europe – “disobedience” but only to certain economic and budgetary rules if necessary);
the common label – “New Popular Ecological and Social Union”;
or even on the division of constituencies, the most fiercely debated subjects.
In the event of a majority in the National Assembly, "
the Prime Minister would come from the largest group in the Assembly, namely Jean-Luc Mélenchon
", stipulates the agreement.
Because the negotiations were not a long calm river.
Again on Wednesday, the leader of the environmentalists Julien Bayou tackled the rebellious negotiators deemed too tough in business at a press conference.
For their part, the Insoumis pointed to the supposed “
internal differences
” of EELV.
The outcome of the agreement is historic.
La France insoumise and Europe Écologie-Les Verts have been the two dynamic left forces for several years.
The first in the presidential elections of 2017 and 2022. The second in the intermediate elections since the European elections of 2019.
An LFI agreement with the Socialist Party would be just as historic, as the estrangement was deep since the departure of Jean-Luc Mélenchon from Solférino in 2008. But he will have to wait.
Negotiations started later and logically continued on Sunday evening.
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