This is probably the end of a long suspense. After maintaining the mystery about his own candidacy for the June legislative elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon hinted Friday evening that he will not stand again. On the other hand, he maintained his objective of winning a majority in the Assembly and thus imposing cohabitation on Emmanuel Macron where he would take on the role of Prime Minister.
Asked on the set of the 20 hours newspaper of France 2 about his personal ambitions in the legislative elections, the leader of La France insoumise timidly replied that he will “probably not” be a candidate. After having been a senator from Essonne for nearly 20 years under the socialist label, he became a deputy for Marseille in the legislative elections of 2017, taking the head of the parliamentary group of La France insoumise in the Assembly.
Joint campaign on the left
Arrived third in the presidential election with nearly 22% of the vote, he estimates that the 7 million votes he obtained allow him to be a contender for Matignon. “I have sufficient popular legitimacy to be able to represent the country with dignity,” he assured.
To achieve this majority in the National Assembly, the tribune is counting on the “New popular ecological and social union” (Nupes), a broad left-wing coalition bringing together socialists, ecologists, communists and rebels under a common banner.
This will however be dominated by the formation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who reserved the most constituencies and imposed on his new partners the main proposals of the program he had defended in the presidential election. We thus find retirement at 60, the minimum wage at 1,400 euros, the freezing of the prices of certain basic necessities or the establishment of a Sixth Republic.
La Nupes must also organize its first convention on Saturday afternoon in Aubervilliers, in Seine-Saint-Denis. An event supposed to mark the kick-off of the electoral campaign of this unprecedented left-wing coalition.
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