The alliance “Together!”, support of the President of the Republic, which brings together En Marche, the MoDem, Horizons and Agir, is accepted. However, the left-wing alliance now called the “New Popular Ecological and Social Union” (Nupes), which brings together La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie Les-Verts and the Communist Party, was not registered by the Ministry of the Interior. Each candidate will therefore remain registered in his party of origin and the results will be individualized. A real injustice for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon threatens to resort to the Council of State
“They introduced their own nuance and not ours, why? So that, on the evening of the first round, they could reduce the breakthrough that we will have made!”, Launched the president of La France insoumise. “Because none of us is present in all the constituencies, and therefore we will have taken advantage of the circumstance to fool you!”
It’s the same problem for speaking time. If the candidates ask to belong to the Nupes shade, the prefectures risk classifying them in the “Miscellaneous Left” box and they will thus see their speaking time shared with the dissidents.
Gérald Darmanin, candidate in the legislative elections against the members of Nupes, maintains his position. For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon threatens to resort to the Council of State.
“Nupes never asked for anything”, retorts Beauvau
Faced with the charge of the leader of LFI, the Ministry of the Interior defends itself and specifies that “Nupes never asked for anything”, and that “the candidates [Nupes] are actually invested independently by each party”. Similarly, “the parties presented themselves independently for public aid and the audiovisual campaign”.
As for a possible comparison between “Together!” and the Nupes, the ministry retorts that this first has “a legal existence, an office, etc.”, which “is not the case of the Nupes which did not constitute itself as an association of electoral financing”.