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9:08 p.m., July 1, 2024
The left managed to agree on Sunday evening on a strategy to adopt for the second round of the legislative elections. All the candidates who came in third place will withdraw next Sunday when the National Rally’s competitor is in the lead. A common line despite the divisions that persist.
It was not necessarily obvious, but the day after the first round of the legislative elections, which saw the RN win ahead of the New Popular Front, the left seems to have found a common line. All the candidates who came in third place will withdraw next Sunday when the National Rally’s competitor is in the lead. A way of blocking the party with the flame.
“It’s them or us”
In fact, about ten candidates have not yet announced their withdrawal, believing they still have a chance of winning in the second round. According to the leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the central bloc no longer exists. “There is no longer any escape from a fundamental choice in this country. Here we are. It’s them or us, there’s nothing in between,” he proclaimed Sunday evening at Place de la République in Paris.
It is difficult for some candidates to withdraw in favor of a Macronist. Especially since tensions were rekindled on Sunday evening within the New Popular Front due to the presence on stage, alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the controversial Rima Hassan, wearing a keffiyeh. A photo that scandalizes the left-wing comrades of the rebellious leader. “He (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) is scaring away voters from the center,” laments a socialist, while the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau speaks of a “provocation” on the part of the former presidential candidate.