On the left, a global agreement for the legislative elections is at a standstill

Bernard Cazeneuve, Martine Aubry, Valerie Donzelli, during the meeting of the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, at the Cirque d’Hiver, in Paris, on April 3, 2022. AGNES DHERBEYS / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”

Nothing will be spared Anne Hidalgo. On Tuesday March 29, Rémi Féraud, socialist senator from Paris, tweeted: “You are never wrong when you follow the same path as Lionel Jospin. » He thought he was doing well by saluting with effusion the support of the former prime minister for the mayor of Paris. Except that said path is not the most exciting. On April 21, 2002, Lionel Jospin left politics after failing, for the first time in the history of the V^e Republic, to qualify the left for the second round of the presidential election. Twenty years later, the result of the Socialist Party (PS) should be much less surprising. Sunday April 10, it is possible that Anne Hidalgo will gather fewer French voters than Parisian voters during her re-election in the 2020 municipal elections.

Environmentalists are in about as dashing shape. It is possible that Yannick Jadot will do no better than Noël Mamère, the record holder for environmentalist votes in a French presidential election, with 5.25% of the vote, in 2002. The time when Yannick Jadot thought he was creating the surprise of the century is long gone, he who defends the cause of the century, ecology. He expected, at the very least, to take a definite lead over his socialist cousins ​​with a view to the post-presidential recomposition. Since December, he has been sitting on the same slide as Anne Hidalgo.

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An anything but brilliant panorama to prepare for the legislative elections (June 12 and 19). This double weakness would require the construction of a united front, not found during the presidential election. Alas, the inventory of fixtures of the interparty agreements is quickly made. Notwithstanding a touch of optimism in the preamble: an agreement on a hundred constituencies could succeed between the PS and the PCF.

On the other hand, to date, La France insoumise (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, largely in the lead on the left in the voting intentions, is intended to go it alone. “We had separate exchanges with environmentalists and the Communist Party, indicates Manuel Bompard, the campaign manager of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. With the communists, the exchanges are constructive. But the ecologists never responded to the proposals we made to them in writing on two occasions. »

hegemonic obsession

Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) sticks to a rigorous position: no agreement is possible before the first roundaccording to Bruno Bernard, a member of Yannick Jadot’s team. We will see according to the results and the positions of each other. » A way to make these competitors pay who did not line up behind the environmentalist candidate. With the PS, the talks are therefore not very advanced. “We are trying to open the cycle of discussionsconfirms Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS. If I’m optimistic? I have no tangible proof that an agreement with the Greens will be made. Even if I wish. » However, a lack of agreement can precipitate them together into a legislative disaster.

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