French left-wing parties will present a single candidacy to prevent Le Pen’s victory

The French left-wing parties announced this Thursday that they have reached a final agreement to create a new ‘Popular Front’ ahead of the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7. The agreement includes unique candidacies in each of the constituencies electoral of the country, as well as a government program. The union “has been sealed,” said a joint statement.

“We have reached a political program of rupture, with a deployment for the first 100 days of mandate, concrete and realistic proposals so that the lives of the French people really change,” says the joint statement.

However, the alliance still He has not agreed who his candidate would be. to prime minister, an issue on which considerable differences persist.

The alliance is formed by the Socialist Party (PS), the environmentalist EELV, La Francia Insumisa (LFI) and the Communist Party (PCF)who announced their intention to form a new Popular Front last Monday, a few hours after the president Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and the calling of early elections.

The announcement of the final agreement came after several days of intense negotiations on the number of constituencies in which each party will compete, but also so that each of the formations received a sufficient number of districts with real possibilities of obtaining a seat.

The former socialist president François Hollandewho occupied the Elysée between 2012 and 2017, expressed his satisfaction with the agreement, since “the left has the duty to unite” in order to stop the extreme right.

“Since the Liberation (of the Nazi occupation in 1944/45) the extreme right has never been so close to coming to power,” Hollande warned in an interview on the TF1 channel. That possibility “creates a danger” and “is not only a problem for France, but for the image of France and for the proposals that France can make in Europe,” he stressed.

“We must do everything possible so that the extreme right does not come to power in France,” Hollande insisted.

The name of the union takes that of the Popular Front, a coalition formed in 1935 by several left-wing parties to respond to the expansion of fascism in Europe and which achieved an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1936 elections, although it disappeared in 1938. .