The French left takes a first step to create a “new popular front” in view of the legislative elections

The main left-wing parties in France agreed this Monday on the need to submit a single application in each constituency for the French legislative elections that are held on June 30 and July 7.

The letter, released at the end of a meeting in which they participated La France Insoumise (LFI), the socialists, the greens and the communistsspeaks of the “desire to present a program of social and ecological ruptures” that confronts the macronist project and the “racist” one of the extreme right.

In the statement, there is no mention of no firm agreement, implying that the four parties still have to negotiate the program and which candidates they will present, a process that is expected to be arduous. The presentation of candidacies for the elections ends on June 16.

“We will present a breakout program for the first 100 days of the Government of the ‘new Popular Front’“, alluding to the left-wing coalition in France between 1936 and 1938, the letter indicated.

As soon as the electoral advance announced on Sunday by the president, Emmanuel Macron, was known, after the overwhelming victory of the extreme right of Marine Le Penthe French left, in low times since the last five years of socialist François Hollande (2012-2017), rushed to launch a call for unity to reissue the ephemeral formula of the progressive coalition NUPES.

This alliance debuted in the 2022 legislative elections, with results below expectations – far from the majority that had been proposed – and integrated La Francia Insumisa, the socialists, the greens and the communists, although it was quickly dissolved by internal dissensions.

As happened this Sunday, several demonstrations of young people against the extreme right were celebrated this Monday in large French cities, most of them spontaneous. In Paris, the march began in the Place de la République and then spread through the streets of the city.

Likewise, the main French unions announced a weekend of mobilizations against a hypothetical Government led by the extreme right. lepenist.