The day after the launch of the LFI campaign for the European elections, the list led by Manon Aubry remains far behind the RN and Renaissance in the polls. The fault lies in a lack of union on the left for Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insoumise and deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, who “regrets” at the microphone of the Grand Rendez-vous the refusal of the other parties to make a common list .
On Saturday, France Insoumise launched its campaign for the European elections on June 9 with a first meeting organized in Villepinte, in Seine-Saint-Denis. With one objective: to launch “after Macron”, as various members of the party chanted, as well as Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list. But the Insoumis remain far behind in the polls, and know that Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s score in the last presidential election (22%) is unattainable. Currently, the LFI list is given around 7 or 8% in the polls, behind the PS-Place Publique list of Raphaël Glucksmann and Europe Écologie-Les Verts of Marie Toussaint. A lack of union of the left which could give the advantage to the RN and Renaissance, criticizes Manuel Bompard. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/ CNews/ Les Échos, the coordinator of La France insoumise and MP for Bouches-du-Rhône judges the refusal of other left-wing parties to make a common list for the European elections “irresponsible” .
If Manuel Bompard recognizes that “the left electorate mobilizes less” in the European elections, the LFI coordinator regrets that the “unprecedented agreement” of the Nupes for the legislative elections did not hold for these European elections. “Since 2022, I, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the deputies of La France insoumise, all of them, have said that we want a common list of Nupes for the European elections,” he insists. “If it was necessary, in order for us to be able to find the conditions for a common list, for it to be, for example, a personality from Europe Ecologie Les Verts who leads the list, we were in agreement. I regret this situation of division,” he says.
“If we had a common list, we could beat the far right in the European elections”
While Nupes was faced with numerous internal divisions, EELV, then the French Communist Party, preferred to make their own list for the Europeans. A decision then followed by the PS, which allied itself with Raphaël Glucksmann’s party, Place Publique. Choices that Manuel Bompard denounces: “when we see the country in such a critical moment in its history, when we see Macronism gradually losing ground, when we see the extreme right which appears today as being the only alternative, it is irresponsible not to compete with it. If we had a common list, today, we would be hot on the heels of the far right and we could beat them in the European elections”, criticizes the MP Bouches-du-Rhône.
According to a survey published in The world on March 11, less than three months before the European elections, the National Rally was well ahead, with 31% of voting intentions, followed by Renaissance (18% of voting intentions). The PS-Place Publique union comes in third position, with 11.5% of voting intentions, ahead of EELV (8.5%). LFI comes next, tied with Les Républicains (7%).
Source: Europe1
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