Union of the Left
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After a historically dense week which saw them ally themselves, then quarrel over the “purge” at La France insoumise, the lefts really launch their campaign this Monday, June 17.
The applications were submitted to the prefecture, the professions of faith sent to the printing press. This time, that’s it: after a long week of negotiations, tensions, concessions leading to the New Popular Front on Thursday evening, the left can launch into the legislative campaign. The start of a two-week time trial, where almost everyone will forget the capital and travel around their constituencies. “No return to Paris planned before the second round”confirms a close friend of the outgoing president of the PS group in the Assembly, Boris Vallaud.
This Monday evening, several figures from the union of the left will nevertheless find themselves on the same stage. The rebels Clémentine Autain, François Ruffin, the socialist Olivier Faure, the communist Fabien Roussel and the ecologist Marine Tondelier must participate in the gathering “Building a new Popular Front with civil society”, organized in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) by the economist Julia Cagé and one of the creators of the Popular Primary Samuel Grzybowski. “The current situation with an extreme right at the gates of power requires the broadest gathering. It cannot be limited to political parties alone.insists the first.
The event program includes
