Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the Assembly, believes that “there was another path”, that of a “coalition”, after Emmanuel Macron’s determination | EUROtoday

The leaders of the left events known as on their camp on Sunday to work in the direction of a ” gathering “ to arrange for the legislative elections in June, after the shock dissolution introduced by Emmanuel Macron, regardless of the disagreements which led to the failure of Nupes.

One after the opposite, Fabien Roussel, chief of the French Communist Party, Olivier Faure, boss of the Socialist Party, and Marie Toussaint, head of the checklist of Ecologists within the European elections, launched calls respectively for a “pact for France”Has “discussions” or to a “useful gathering” confronted with the menace represented by the National Rally.

“There is a balance of power this evening which has evolved” between the left-wing events after the European elections, nonetheless warned Olivier Faure, whose candidate, Raphaël Glucksmann, got here on the high of the left-wing lists. The socialist deputy subsequently known as “everyone to think about the best conditions for a gathering which allows us to have a project, which allows us to be heard by the French”.

“Let's see each other quickly, let's work together on a pact for France by putting social policies, salaries, purchasing power, distribution of wealth” on the desk, requested Fabien Roussel.

“We are going to campaign to go to Matignon, to govern the country and to ensure that we finally provide answers to the great difficulties facing the French”assured the nationwide coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard. “Don’t go too quickly.”, he nonetheless replied, when requested particularly a couple of marketing campaign by Jean-Luc Mélenchon to go to Matignon. Mr. Bompard additionally denounced the “heavy responsibility” of “Raphaël Glucksmann and the Socialist Party”, Who “turned their backs on the Nupes”.

Aware of the issue of constructing a gathering of the left urgently in these circumstances, LFI deputy François Ruffin pleaded for appeasement. “Today, the subject is to have a bloc to face the worst that can happen to our country, he explained. I appeal to the leaders of the left-wing parties so that we can now be united and stop the bullshit. It's been long enough of insulting each other, it's been long enough of tearing each other apart. »

“We have a coalition of leftists and ecologists which exists today and which, I believe, if it knows how to pull itself together, is capable of leading this battle” legislative elections, judged for her half the ecologist Marie Toussaint, whose checklist arrived simply above the qualifying bar of 5%.

The chief of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, known as throughout an impromptu assembly in Paris to “the unity of the people”. “Everyone is capable of choosing the program that allows popular unity”he added.