The Socialists, Greens and Communists have put aside their differences to form a ‘New Popular Front’
Supporters rally as a placard reads ‘Popular Front’ during a meeting of the electoral coalition of left-wing parties, the ‘Nouveau Front Populaire’, on 22 June.Supporters rally as a placard reads ‘Popular Front’ during a meeting of the electoral coalition of left-wing parties, the ‘Nouveau Front Populaire’, on 22 June.
For France’s Socialists, allying with LFI after its outspoken leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s insults and attacks on the man who led their European campaign, Raphaël Glucksmann, has been a bitter pill to swallow. But swallow it they must, Glucksmann says, if they are to win what he calls “the mother of all battles”.
Establishing a programme for the hastily created NFP hydra, most of whose heads loathe each other, has involved even more pill swallowing and compromise. “Separately they risked losing and letting the RN and Emmanuel Macron’s party through; by joining forces nationally the aim is to get as many candidates as possible into the second round,” Bréhier said.
Bréhier said the predicted high turnout and a lower number of candidates this time could lead to more “triangulars”: the unusual situation where three candidates qualify for the second-round vote instead of two. In the past, when two parties faced the far right, one would often withdraw to avoid splitting the vote.
“There’s a big difference between the RN and the LFI, which is now in a coalition whose programme is democratic. In any case, there is no guarantee that within the coalition the LFI will win the most seats, which means it will have to work with socialists and others ,” he said.
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