On the way to the union of the left for the legislative elections, a first big step was taken overnight from Sunday to Monday.

La France insoumise and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) have indeed concluded a historic agreement for the elections of June 12 and 19, while negotiations are progressing with the PS and the PCF.

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.

A “New Popular Ecological and Social Union”

If we exclude 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 election.

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.

Above all, in the event of a majority in June, “the Prime Minister would come from the largest group in the Assembly, namely Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.

This achievement is historic.

LFI and EELV have indeed 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 has run deep since the departure of Jean-Luc Mélenchon from Solférino in 2008. But he will have to wait.

Negotiations started later and are continuing.

“If the discussions do not end tonight, then it will never end”, launched in the Parisian Labor Day parade Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

A deal tonight?

“Tonight, I am sleeping”, however replied a few tens of meters away Olivier Faure, the First Secretary of the PS.

A few minutes later, the two leaders shook hands, before engaging in a brief conversation in front of the cameras to cries of “Popular Union!

" in the crowd.

Elephants put Faure under pressure

But Olivier Faure is negotiating under the pressure of an increasingly vehement internal opposition.

His predecessor at the head of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, published an open letter on Sunday asking not to sign an agreement.

Stéphane Le Foll, close to François Hollande, also dropped his blows on Sunday in an interview with Le

Point

: “The urgency for Olivier Faure is to save himself.

He is ready to sell off all socialist history for an agreement on 20 constituencies, it is unacceptable”.

Negotiations both internally and externally are therefore not yet complete.

Elections

Legislative 2022: Jean-Christophe Cambadélis opposes an agreement with LFI and calls on PS figures to "refound" the party

Elections

Legislative 2022: The PCF considers the LFI proposals insufficient to establish an agreement

  • Elections

  • Legislative elections 2022

  • Video

  • La France Insoumise (LFI)

  • Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV)

  • Jean-Luc Melenchon

  • Socialist Party (PS)