It is perhaps for the left that the struggle for places in the Assembly will have been the hardest. In the negotiations, the competition between “partners” was sometimes more tense than that between the different political sides. “Rebellious”, communists, ecologists, socialists, the members of the alliance had nevertheless complied with several intergroup meetings and had multiplied gestures of goodwill in recent days. Tuesday, before entering the hemicycle, a short plenary even brought together all the deputies. The intergroup had agreed on a list of common candidates for office: Caroline Fiat (La France insoumise, LFI, Meurthe-et-Moselle) and Valérie Rabault (Socialist Party, PS, Tarn-et-Garonne) for the vice-presidency, Bastien Lachaud (LFI, Seine-Saint-Denis) as quaestor, a Democratic and Republican Left candidate (GDR – Soumya Bourouaha, elected in Seine-Saint-Denis, was finally appointed) and the ecologist Hubert Julien-Laferrière (Rhône), from Generation Ecology, for secretaries.
La France insoumise, majority in this coalition (with 75 deputies out of 151), played its leadership in this first test: was it going to succeed in establishing its predominance while sparing the sensitivities of its partners? Obviously, on the environmental side, the answer leans towards no. “We have to find the balance within the Nupes…”, measured Sandrine Rousseau (Paris) on Wednesday morning. Last week, the environmental group had agreed to ask for a vice-presidency for her, in the absence of co-presidency of the group with Julien Bayou. On the LFI side as a socialist, the absence of environmentalists in a vice-presidency position was explained by the fact that they would not have, at twenty-three elected, the number of points required to claim it under the system in force. in the room, a calculation disputed by Julien Bayou.
“It is their strategy but it is not shared”
Wednesday, the vote of the office is organized. For the left like the others, the day will call for clarifications on a key question: how to position themselves against the National Rally (RN), which now has 89 deputies? Within the Nupes, environmentalists are the only ones to state it so clearly, in a morning press release: “We, ecologists, do not accept the formation of an office of the National Assembly in which the National Rally would sit. It is now up to the presidency of this same Assembly to propose an office in the continuity of the roadblock that the French men and women erected during the second round of the presidential election. »
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