In a joint statement after holding a meeting, the parties Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV), Socialists (PS), French Communists (PCF) and Insoumise France (LFI), as well as other organizations, set the objectives of “building a alternative to President Emmanuel Macron and combat the racist project of the extreme right.
The day before, Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and called legislative elections in reaction to the large victory in the European elections of the nationalist National Rally party (RN), identified with the extreme right.
Left leaders such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), Olivier Faure (PS) and Fabien Roussel (PCF) advocated joining forces against the advance of the far right, which led by the several-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen declared itself ready to govern on French soil.
The agreement in principle reached tonight by socialists, rebels, environmentalists and communists promises a rupture program with measures to be adopted in the first 100 days of Government, if the left triumphs in the elections that will have the first round on June 30 and the second, a week later.
Our goal is to govern to respond to democratic, ecological and social urgencies and in favor of peace, underlines the text circulated here.
Likewise, the signatory organizations supported the call of unions and young people to carry out the largest possible demonstrations against the extreme right.
The left already competed together and with good results in the 2022 legislative elections, in which it was only surpassed in deputies by the ruling party, but the then created New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) dissolved amid contradictions and differences among its members.
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