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French snap elections: Left-wing parties say reached agreement to team up
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6/11/2024
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Celebrations outside the headquarters of France's Ecologist Party as the left presented a united
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front on Monday night, joining forces in order to challenge the far-right national rally
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as well as President Emmanuel Macron's Together coalition.
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We did it. We managed to reach an agreement.
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The socialists, ecologists, communists and France Unbowed announced that they wanted
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to put in place single candidates in each constituency for the legislative elections
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on 30 June.
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This means we will be working together to put forward joint candidates in the first
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round of the parliamentary elections who will defend a programme that prioritises the urgent
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social, ecological and democratic battles.
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The unity comes as somewhat of a surprise. In October of last year, the socialists pulled
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out of the Nupes alliance created ahead of the 2022 elections. That decision followed
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the refusal of France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his inner circle to denounce
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Hamas as a terrorist organisation after the October 7th attacks.
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And just last month, Socialist First Secretary Olivier Faure accused Mélenchon of doing
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everything to make an alliance impossible between left-wing parties. Speaking on Monday,
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Faure seemed to have put those differences behind him.
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We are a country rising up today and saying no to the far-right and yes to democracy,
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yes to the left.
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The union still need to hammer out a list of policies with many questions still unanswered.
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One of those is who will lead the alliance. It was Mélenchon two years ago, but many
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now argue that he is too divisive to lead the union. On Monday, Raphael Glucksmann,
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who led the socialist list to third place in the recent European elections, suggested
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that in the event of a left-wing victory, it should be former union leader Laurent Berger
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named as prime minister.
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