Legislative: has Jean-Luc Mélenchon succeeded in his bet?

By winning 131 seats in the National Assembly, the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) becomes the main opposition force in the Assembly, ahead of the National Rally and its 89 deputies. But is this a successful bet? With more than 70 deputies against 17 five years ago for La France insoumise, it is undoubtedly Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is doing the best of all the other leftist formations.

The small group, already very noisy, will now occupy crucial positions in the life of Parliament. But above all, the comrades of Jean-Luc Mélenchon will dominate the rest of the left for the next five years.

A double failure for Jean-Luc Mélenchon

For their part, the Socialists saved the furniture with about thirty deputies, while the Communists narrowly maintained a group in the National Assembly. Only the Greens are full with around twenty new deputies. This is the first time that an environmental group will be able to sit in ten years. Note all the same a double failure for Jean-Luc Mélenchon: first of all, he will not be Prime Minister and the result of the Nupes is half as high as expected.

However, the Insoumis believes that it has fulfilled its objective and to listen to it, it is already the end of the reign of Emmanuel Macron. “We have achieved the political objective that we had set ourselves, in less than a month to bring down the man who, with so much arrogance, had twisted the arm of the whole country to be elected without anyone knowing why. do,” he said.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a non-candidate in the legislative elections, will not retire. He will certainly have a lot to do because the question of the future of Nupes in the short and medium term is posed: will the union of the left break up or, on the contrary, will it be sustainable over time? For the moment, nothing is certain, especially since some of its members have never given the impression of fully playing the game of the alliance.

This is the case, for example, of the boss of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, who as of Sunday evening pointed out the limits of the Nupes, emphasizing that it has enabled the left to progress in terms of the number of deputies, but not in number of votes. An alliance which “only speaks to part of France, that of the cities, and not to that of rurality”, adds the former presidential candidate.

With 31.6% of the votes in its favor in the second round, the Nupes managed to elect 127 deputies, to which must be added the four who had already been elected in the first round. But these 131 deputies are not from the same party: 72 are from France insoumise (LFI), 26 from the Socialist Party (PS), 23 from Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), 12 from the Communist Party (PCF) and 4 of Generation.s. It is therefore the National Rally and not La France insoumise which is the first opposition group to Emmanuel Macron.