At this stage, it is a noise of corridor, a subject approached by the left with tweezers: in the event of dissolution of the National Assembly, what would the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) do? For the moment, few believe in this threat brandished by Emmanuel Macron. No, she would rather address the right, the Republicans (LR) and her own forces, who threaten to escape her, they theorize. “A com stunt to scare”, considers the president of the environmental group in the National Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain; “a trick” of the President of the Republic to put pressure on LR and its own majority won by “desires for emancipation”judges the socialist deputy of Essonne Jérôme Guedj.
However, the question begins to be asked. And everyone in the Nupes brings their answer, with nuances. On the side of La France insoumise (LFI), it is clear, the Nupes is called upon to remobilize on more or less the same format, with the same slogan, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon Prime Minister”. “It’s a successful strategy, defends the LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard. A strategy that allowed us to win, I don’t see why we would question it. » But within the alliance, some are already thinking about amending this format, deemed too favorable to LFI, and not taking sufficient account, according to them, of local balances in the constituencies.
At the Socialist Party (PS), it is recorded. In the event of dissolution, there is no question of renewing the Nupes agreement as it was signed in the spring. “We cannot freeze the balance of power in the last presidential election. He changed “, argues the national secretary, Olivier Faure. ” We are not in the same propulsive dynamic, completes Jérôme Guedj. It would seem incongruous, above ground, to reproduce the same human and programmatic device, to keep the same nominations. »
The latter would also like a “feedback” of the legislative elections of June be established within the Nupes. At the PS, we like to point out that one out of two invested socialist candidates was elected, while the success rate of LFI candidates (72 elected out of 329 candidates) is much lower. “Today, the Nupes group in the Assembly is 50% from LFI and 50% from the three other political parties, while LFI had many more candidates”, corroborates Olivier Faure, who considers that the PS is in better shape than six months ago. Proof of this is the latest IFOP-Fiducial survey published by The Sunday newspaperon November 5, which grants 8% of the votes in the first round to a socialist candidate, against 11% for a “rebellious”, if legislative elections were held today.
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