After the first round of the legislative elections, the left gave voting instructions for the second round. If it is clear that the directive is to block the RN, the New Popular Front goes even further by withdrawing the candidates who came in third place.
As soon as the first results were announced after the first round of the legislative elections, the left gave voting instructions to voters. It required a lot of negotiations between the different parties of the New Popular Front to do that.
With a clear public declaration, that is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. From the beginning of the evening, he announced the instructions: the withdrawal of all the candidates of the New Popular Front, thus including the rebels, in a triangular situation, if this candidate comes in third place and that the RN is leading. Until now, in a situation like this, LFI had only one rule: “Don’t vote for the RN”. But with these withdrawals, they go further. “We are much more responsible than the Macronists” boasted a Mélenchonist executive.
This decision, if implemented effectively, will, for example, pressure rebels to withdraw in favor of Élisabeth Borne.
The image of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with Rima Hassan is disturbing
And this choice was not easy. According to our information, the left leaders have been trying to reach an agreement for two weeks. The pressure on the rebels was strong, until a final meeting of the major leaders, Sunday at 6:30 pm “That Mélenchon went on this line, he did not win,” likes an environmental executive even ask to see it as a “major political fact”.
Does this mean, from now on, that there is no more tension in the left wing union? No. And one image even particularly irritated within the New Popular Front. The one where Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from his headquarters, spoke to Rima Hassan right next to him, the Palestinian keffiyeh on her shoulder, the MEP whose radical position is controversial.
A socialist is furious: “He will definitely lose votes among the Macronists”. Voters whose votes will be needed next Sunday.