The campaign for the legislative elections of June 30 has seen no respite in France. Between the left represented by the New Popular Front (NFP) which unites the entire French left (without the socialists affiliated to the presidential clan) and the National Rally, joined by the Republicans of Éric Ciotti and certain members of Éric Zemmour’s party, the exchanges are heated and sometimes go beyond the rules of courtesy.
Indeed, as the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 approach, the left and the far right are trading blows. In addition to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is immigration, visa policy and France’s relationship with foreigners that constitute the gap between the supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen. The supporters of Olivier Faure and Jordan Bardella.
What if the New Popular Front won this Sunday election? You should already know that the NFP is a coalition of several left-wing parties. These are mainly France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Ecologists and the Communist Party, as well as Place publique, Génération.s, the Republican and Socialist Left, the Ecosocialist Left and the New Anti-Capitalist Party. The NFP was born the day after the European elections of June 9, 2024 which saw the victory of the National Rally with more than 31% of the votes.
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Threats from the far right will be lifted
It is this victory of the far right in the European elections which generated the union of the left and if the NFP wins the majority in the French National Assembly, at the end of the second round which will take place on July 7, 2024, the parties which represent it will have to form the future government called to coexist with the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. But it must be said that there will be no major changes, in particular because of the differences which undermine the parties forming the New Popular Front.
However, in the event of a victory for the left in these legislative elections, many threats will be lifted, in particular those posed by the far right against foreigners and immigration policy in France. For example, the land law policy that Marine Le Pen’s RN intends to call into question, as well as the family reunification policy that it seeks to restrict.
No questioning of the right of the soil and the Franco-Algerian agreements of 1968
Also, if the left returns to Matignon, the 1968 agreements, which bind Algeria and France on the issue of immigration and the movement of people, will not be called into question. Unlike the extreme right which wants to call them into question, including outside of state-to-state negotiations, and even Macron’s Renaissance, which intends to open negotiations with the Algerian authorities to renegotiate them. Moreover, some RN candidates even advocate the remigration of Algerians, during their public and media outings.
In any case, if the left wins these legislative elections, it will be different parties that will win and that will be called upon to form a left-wing government. The PS, the PCF, LFI and the Greens, among others, will have to sit around a table and discuss all the issues that concern the French, including that of immigration, which France still needs. They will certainly find the best way to organize this economic immigration, in particular by choosing skilled workers and other specialists in certain sectors of activity.
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