The “phase 2” of the left-wing coalition Nupes, and in particular the discussions for a common list for the Europeans of 2024, begin next week in a “summit meeting”, assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Tuesday.
In a Youtube video, the initiator of the alliance forged in May 2022 evokes the date of May 2 for this meeting of the leaders of La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and Europe Ecology – The Greens.
It will take place next week but the precise date is not yet defined, indicated the coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard and the head of EELV Marine Tondelier, requested by AFP.
And a socialist official specifies that there will be no communication of this meeting. “If you want to work seriously, you can’t do it in a permanent open format,” he explains.
“The Nupes, it works, it will meet at the top,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “We are going to start phase 2 of the existence of this alliance, this convergence, this front that is Nupes”.
The former presidential candidate said he “hoped” that the partners “continue to discuss so that in the next European elections the Nupes confirms that it exists, and that it can then move on to the other stages”.
It must “be able to come to the top of all the lists so that we can see which side the country wants to go”, he insisted.
The PS opened the door to a common list and LFI offers the head of the list to environmentalists, but Marine Tondelier has several times refused this prospect, believing that EELV was destined to succeed alone in the European elections, which were favorable to him in 2009 and 2019.
“How to explain to voters for whom the Nupes has raised hopes that we will leave separated in the next elections?” Asks in an interview with Liberation the former head of the LFI list for the 2019 European elections, Manon Aubry.
She proposes to set up “from now” “working groups on three projects”: “the assessment of what we are already doing together in Parliament”, “the main priorities for 2024” and “the subjects identified as problematic” .
Among these, she lists “the Europe of defence”, “the enlargement of the Union”, “federalism” or even “protectionism”.
The Socialist leader quoted above also calls for “a debate on the merits”. But “we can’t start such a serious debate by saying we want a common list otherwise it’s the end of the Nupes”, he warns.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon swept aside the recurring dissensions within the coalition: “La Nupes continues to move forward, to be united. Of course there are discussions, more difficult days, but there are lots of good days when that is going well, because we are neck and neck in the streets, and in the National Assembly”.
04/25/2023 17:29:21 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
