With its march on October 16, Nupes is playing its future

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Undermined by a succession of internal crises, the left-wing coalition is counting on its Sunday meeting to launch a large-scale social movement.

By Sebastien Schneegans

Lhe date has been on Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s diary for (a very) long time. Since July 6, precisely. As the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, prepares to deliver her general policy speech to the Assembly in front of particularly noisy elected Insoumis, their leader proposes to organize a “big march against the high cost of living” to “give the the of the start of the school year.

He was unaware then that business – Quatennens then Bayou – would give, despite himself, the the of the return to politics on the left, seriously scratching its image with feminist activists and once again waking up the specter of the explosion of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). “If the march fails, I fear that this strange alloy will soon break…

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