The party wants to offer “to the whole of the left a debate at the start of the school year from September until the beginning of November” in order to work “on a common project”.
The secretary general of the PS Pierre Jouvet announced in the Sunday newspaper that his party would propose a “debate” between the different left-wing parties, spread out from “the start of the school year in September” to “early November”, to work on a “rally” for the European elections of 2024.
“The European question has always been the most difficult question on the left”, recognized Pierre Jouvet, while the components of the Nupes nurture differences on the subject.
Calling to take “things in order”, Pierre Jouvet therefore indicated that his party would propose “to the whole of the left a debate at the start of the school year in September until the beginning of November”.
“We will see if a rally is possible”
“Let’s put our proposals, our convergences and our divergences on the table. Let’s take the time to build. Let’s work on a project. At the end of this debate, we will see if a rally is possible,” he pleaded. “We are ready to discuss a Nupes list for the Europeans, but it is the substance that will determine the rest”, supported Pierre Jouvet.
The question of a single list for Europeans meets in particular with reluctance at Europe Ecology – The Greens, where the national secretary Marine Tondelier repeated her opposition to the hypothesis.
The European “are proportional elections in one round”, during which “our voters, our sympathizers, our members demand to be able to put a green ballot in the ballot box”, she said on Saturday on France inter.
At the same time, the former party boss Julien Bayou opened the door on franceinfo to a common list, “on one condition”: to follow “an ecologist, federalist line, to reorient Europe”.
La Nupes “must find a new breath”
Environmentalists and socialists are also calling for a new act by Nupes, created during the 2022 legislative elections and dominated by La France insoumise, which won the largest battalion of deputies.
This alliance “must find new life. It must be our floor, never our ceiling”, argued Pierre Jouvet, pleading for its expansion.
“By the summer, we also want to launch in all the departments of the ‘general states’ of the left and ecology to see how to do better”, explained the one who also says he is in favor of a single candidacy on the left. in the presidential election of 2027.
But until then, “if there were to be a dissolution, it is quite clear that the distribution of constituencies could not be the same as today”, assured Pierre Jouvet, considering that “the balance of power “on the left” are not the same as after the presidential election.
