Legislative: has Jean-Luc Mélenchon succeeded in his bet?

Alexis Delafontaine 8:41 a.m., June 20, 2022

By winning 131 seats in the National Assembly, the New People's Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) nevertheless became the main opposition force in the Assembly, ahead of the National Rally and its 89 deputies.

But is this a successful bet? With more than 70 deputies against 17 five years ago for La France insoumise, it is clearly Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is doing the best of all the other left-wing formations.

The small group, already very noisy, will now occupy crucial positions in the life of Parliament.

But above all, the comrades of Jean-Luc Mélenchon will dominate the rest of the left for the next five years.

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A double failure for Jean-Luc Mélenchon

For their part, the Socialists saved the furniture with about thirty deputies, while the Communists narrowly maintained a group in the National Assembly.

Only the Greens are full with twenty new deputies.

This is the first time that an environmental group will be able to sit in ten years.

Note all the same a double failure for Jean-Luc Mélenchon: first of all, he will not be Prime Minister and the result of the Nupes is half as high as expected. 

With 31.6% of the votes in its favor in the second round, the Nupes managed to elect 127 deputies, to which must be added the four who had already been elected in the first round.

But these 131 deputies are not from the same party: 72 are from France insoumise (LFI), 26 from the Socialist Party (PS), 23 from Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), 12 from the Communist Party (PCF) and 4 of Generation.s.

It is therefore the National Rally and not La France insoumise which is the first opposition group to Emmanuel Macron.