Will the negotiations on the left for the legislative elections play the extensions next week?

The question is asked because it is, in principle, the last chance weekend.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Insoumis are therefore calling on the left to get out of the “culture of defeat” as the last hours planned to find an agreement for the polls on June 12 and 19 pass.

Sunday evening is indeed the deadline for an agreement mentioned by all the protagonists, evoking the imperatives of electoral propaganda.

However, we are "still in the dark", slips Alain Coulombel, one of EELV's negotiators.

LFI in a dominant position

"It's progressing," comments Manuel Bompard, chief negotiator for LFI.

His training has been dominant since the 22% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the presidential election.

The desire to conclude an agreement seemed real on Saturday between LFI and EELV.

The two training sessions tackled in depth the themes that stand in the way, such as Europe, the division of constituencies or even the mode of organization of the alliance.

After judging Friday morning that an agreement was "in sight", the leader of the Greens Julien Bayou suggested on Saturday that EELV was attentive to discussions with the other parties: "We want it to move forward, with everyone, and among everyone”.

Because with the Socialist Party, the reconciliation started in the middle of the week will take time, the Socialists having "suspended" their discussions Friday noon.

In question, argued the party leadership: the “hegemonic” attitudes of LFI.

The rebellion of certain elected officials and a minority current who do not accept that the PS has subscribed to the ideological demands of the Insoumis (retirement at 60, partial disobedience to Europe, price freezes, etc.) also explain the procrastination of 'Olivier Faure and his lieutenants.

However, "the link is in no way broken" with LFI, assured a PS negotiator on Saturday.

According to him, “the only real deadline for LFI is May 7 (the day of the Popular Union's investiture convention), so they want it to be over by that date.

But in reality, until May 14, everything is manageable”.

Fabien Roussel (re)starts

The communist Fabien Roussel, without waiting for an agreement which is too late for his taste, announced on Friday his candidacy for his re-election in his northern constituency of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux.

The Communists hope to have more constituencies than those of their incumbents, claiming to be better established in certain areas.

On Saturday, they also noted "that the proposals of La France insoumise, which has the primary responsibility for allowing this gathering, have not allowed at this time" an agreement.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, "warned" all his potential partners: "People will not agree twice to be robbed of victory by those who refuse to build this new majority".

In addition, some mayors who compose with plural majorities have stepped up to defend this model of alliance, such as the ecologist Grégory Doucet in Lyon or in Nantes the socialist Johanna Rolland.

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