After EELV, the Insoumis want to conclude with the PS and the PCF

On the strength of a historic agreement for the legislative elections concluded overnight with EELV, La France insoumise is trying this Monday to go further by resuming negotiations with the PS and the PCF, with the objective of going quickly and projecting itself towards Saturday’s nominations.

The creation of a new union

With the creation of the “New popular ecological and social union”, the protagonists of the long negotiations between EELV and LFI proclaimed their satisfaction in chorus in the radio and TV morning shows on Monday morning.

“It’s exceptional but it’s up to the voters to make it historic” with a “victory” in the June legislative elections, said on BFMTV Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV. “We have taken a very strong first act” to the union of much more often divided lefts, he welcomed.

No climbing in Europe

At the Paris headquarters of LFI, negotiations resume around noon with the Socialists and, novelty of the day, EELV will participate in the discussions, while the meetings held until then by LFI were bilateral. The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure pleaded Sunday for the rally: “We must be able to listen to each other, to get along and to understand each other. I don’t know if an agreement will be reached. But I want it”.

He has to deal with the internal rebellion of a minority current and several historical figures of the PS, from François Hollande to Jean-Christophe Cambadélis via Stéphane Le Foll, who accuse him of “submission” to LFI, an antagonistic movement in recent years. years on subjects such as secularism or Europe.

A meeting with the PCF

As for the communists, they will be welcomed at 2:00 p.m. “I hope that today we too will manage to conclude this agreement during the day, in the evening, in the night if necessary, until the end”, hammered their boss Fabien Roussel on franceinfo . “There is no plan B, there is only plan A: to come together and manage to build this great coalition of the left to finally take our revenge on this presidential election”.

Because this enlarged “People’s Union” has the declared objective of sending Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Matignon, by obtaining a majority in the National Assembly. Hence the bitter negotiations to settle disputes, such as the “disobedience” to certain European rules. The text of the agreement between rebels and environmentalists confirms the possibility of disobeying if the EU prevents the program from applying, but only in budgetary and economic cases. Any escalation towards an exit from the EU is prohibited, as requested by the Greens.