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2주 미만 after France’s neoliberal president, Emmanuel Macron, 패배 the far-right’s Marine Le Pen to win a second five-year term, the country’s four major left parties have agreed in principle to form an electoral coalition that aims to deny Macron a parliamentary majority.
“No one on the left can win on their own.”
France’s center-left Socialist Party and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed reached a draft agreement on Wednesday following extensive negotiations. The French Communist Party and Greens had already agreed to join the alliance earlier this week.
“We want to elect MPs in a majority of constituencies to stop Emmanuel Macron from pursuing his unjust and brutal policies and beat the far-right,” the Socialist Party and France Unbowed said in a joint statement, 에 따라 프랑스 - 프레스.
The pact was spearheaded by Mélenchon, who finished just behind Le Pen in the 첫 번째 라운드 of France’s presidential election and therefore missed out on a chance to challenge the incumbent one-on-one.
If the deal is confirmed—it still needs to be approved by the Socialists’ national committee on Thursday—all four parties “will campaign under a common program and run one joint candidate in the election for the National Assembly on June 9 and 12,” 정치가 신고. “The agreement would reportedly allow a Socialist candidate to run unopposed in 70 constituencies.”
BBC 뉴스 강조 the potential significance of the coalition: “Instead of running against each other in the parliamentary elections, Socialists, Greens, Communists, and supporters of France Unbowed will share one candidate per constituency, thus greatly increasing their chances.”
“After Macron’s win, Mélenchon immediately called on voters to ‘elect him prime minister’ and hand the left a National Assembly majority,” AFP reported. “A united left ahead of the parliamentary poll is ‘an unprecedented and important event,’ political historian Gilles Candar told AFP—although he added that it remains to be seen whether it can secure power or remain coherent.”
If the left-wing coalition succeeds in winning a parliamentary majority and Mélenchon becomes prime minister, it could systematically block Macron’s pro-corporate agenda.
Macron, a former investment banker, has 줄인 the corporate tax rate and is currently pushing an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65. In addition to exacerbating economic inequality and insecurity, Macron’s pursuit of 반 이민 와 반 무슬림 policies has legitimized Le Pen’s far-right ideas, progressive critics 라고.
If Mélenchon’s proposed alliance is finalized, it would constitute “the first formal coalition for the French left since the Socialist-Green pact XNUMX년 전" 정치가 noted. “If the deal goes ahead, the parties will 운동 on policies including raising the minimum wage, capping prices on essential products, and lowering the retirement age to 60.”
Pierre Jouvet, a negotiator for the Socialist Party, 이야기 reporters: “I believe that today we are a few hours away from a historic moment, a historic moment that has been awaited for years by the people of the left who have been ardently asking us to find a way to come together.”
“No one on the left can win on their own,” Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel 이야기 프랑스 인터 radio, adding that the coalition needs to harness “the immense hope among the French public, among workers, among young people who are asking us to unite.”
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