“You cannot have the morals of the Banana Republic.” The Nupes launched a new fight on Monday, June 13, against the Ministry of the Interior. They accuse it of “tampering” by not correctly adding up the votes it needed to return to the first round of legislative election.

“It is evident that there is some doubt about Darmanin’s handling of the results. Everyone knows they are terrible losers. Jean-Luc Melenchon, a Frenchman who slammed Gerald Darmanin as a bad loser Monday outside of the LFI headquarters, said “You can’t have Banana republic morals.”

According to reports, the ministry will stick to the lists of candidates. Christophe Castaner is the boss of LREM deputies and denounces “conspiracy theories” by the Insoumis.

The game between the outgoing majority of the players and the left uniting under the banner Nupes fuels tensions between both camps as they prepare for the second round.

The official results show that the Macronist coalition Together won the election. Nupes was defeated by Nupes by less than 21,000 votes out of 23.3million voters with 25.75% ( 5,857,558 vote), against 25.66% for Nupes (5,366,202).

Manuel Bompard (Nupes candidate in the Bouches du-Rhone) tweeted that the Nupes had received 6,101,968 votes or 26.8 accusing the Ministry of the Interior of it. To artificially make Macron’s party appear in front, less was assigned. “Tampering”, choked LFI number two Adrien Quatennens.

“Hello Council of State?” Manuel Bompard was inaugurated six days after an institution that, in summary proceedings, had ordered Gerald Darmanin for Nupes to be taken into account as “a political nuance of its own right” during the ballot, was seized by LFI.

According to AFP’s count, Nupes is first with 5,880 605 votes. This represents 25.85% of votes or 19,812 more votes than Together! (5,860,793 votes).

The reason for the discrepancy in the ministry’s figures is that AFP accounts under the nuance Nupes some 44,400 votes collected from three candidates: Herve Saulignac (1st District of Ardeche), Dominique Potier (5th From Meurthe-et-Moselle), and Joel Aviragnet (8th From Haute-Garonne). The PS had invested all three of them as part the Nupes.

Dominique Potier, a sign of the complexity in the situation, told AFP Monday that he wasn’t a Nupes candidate but DVG, even if Nupes didn’t present a candidate against his, and that he could, if elected to, sit with the Socialist and Related Group.

AFP was questioned by the ministry, which explained that it had “recognized Various left” the three candidates “initially investi by Nupes”, but then “declared that its intention to give up this nomination.” Nupes.

The ministry also claims that the situation is similar for the presidential majority. For example, the minister “Damien Abad” can be legitimately thought to be supported “Ensemble”, and “is counted as Divers Right”.

The ministry pointed out that there was no overseas candidate on the “yet quite complete” list of “all candidates to whom it would be appropriate to attribute nuance ‘Nupes” which was addressed by campaign management at the Nupes ministry on June 8.

Consequently, candidates from Corsica, Overseas and territories not covered by the national Nupes accord were not counted. This includes Karine Le Bon, in the 2nd constituency, and Insoumis Hugues Ratenon, in the 5th. LFI says they fought for Nupes.

LFI issued a press release calling on media to open “their own accounts” and promising a “true independent electoral body” if the Nupes wins a majority in the legislative election. Jean-Luc Melenchon stated that “it’s not a game” and “it’s just our democracy”. He said he had “always trusted in the authorities, but now he has a lot of doubts.”

Manuel Bompard, Christophe Castaner’s friend, “talks about people that they support now even though they weren’t supporting them two days ago.”

Nupes deemed the comment “incredible”, and in a tweet he criticized Nupes for calling the LREM deputy “conspirators” who “just demand the exact results presented”.