French left-wing parties pledge to team up for snap elections • FRANCE 24 English

French left-wing parties pledge to team up for snap elections • FRANCE 24 English

so little more than 24 hours after the shock announcement from France’s president Emanuel macron that he is calling snap elections in little over two weeks time France’s left-wing parties coming together to fight the Socialists the greens the Communists and the more far-left France unbowed party announcing they will present shared platform candidates just one candidate that is then per constituency to represent all of them their hope that they can really challenge MRA and also really challenge the rise of Marine Le Pen’s the far right hereit that rise that has led to this election in the first place this means we will be working together to put forward joint candidates in the first round of the Parliamentary elections who will defend a program that prioritizes the Urgent social ecological and Democratic battles it’s a first step and we will be continuing to work over the coming hours to ensure that we’re ready in the days to come because the battle is about to begin we are a country rising up today and saying no to the far right and yes to democracy yes to the left thank you for coming out today keep it up we signed a document with seven political organizations and launched an appeal for more people to join us tomorrow I think there are already 15 or so political organizations that have joined this appeal this evening tomorrow I hope we’ll reach 20 or so and that this very broad Gathering will enable us to go all the way to Victory well Andrew hilia from our International Affairs desk is joining us here on set now so Andrew um people have been saying you’ve got to come together and it does seem as though the left parties are all coming together now yeah well do we’re seeing what I would call the outlines of an agreement here between the four main parties on the left that’s uh France on bow the Socialist Party the Communists uh and the greens as you can see on the screen here so late last night they issued a joint statement in which they announced uh their desire to form a popular front so what they’ll do is they’ll combine forces uh putting forward only one candidate in each electoral District of course that uh the aim there to stop left-wing candidates draining votes away from each other uh in the same district and they’re all going to Rally behind the same election Manifesto now Stuart for people like you and me who don’t follow uh French politics quite as closely uh it’s important to point out that this is not the first time that the left has come together to form an alliance they actually already did it two years ago during the last legislative elections under the banner of npz and you remember that was dominated by France unbow and its leader Jean luk milon after he came third uh in those presidential elections in 2022 narrowly missing out on second place place to Marine Leen but basically what happened over the next uh two years was that infighting caused that Alliance to implode there were differences in policy and the breaking point came last October when differences emerged over Israel’s war uh on Gaza you had basically the Socialist Party and the greens openly supporting Israel’s response to those attacks uh by Hamas last October whereas France om took a more nuanced uh view uh on what happened focusing more on Israel’s repressive policies towards Palestinians as a factor driving those attacks uh Fran and Ba’s leader John Luke milon was accused of echoing anti-semitic stereotypes so essentially what we have here uh is an agreement but getting an agreement is one thing now whether or not it sticks over the next few weeks and months is something else so we’ll have to see what happens will differences reemerge over Gaza what will this election Manifesto look like those are big answers uh big question and we need to see what the answers will be

France’s opposition left-wing parties late on Monday pledged to work together and nominate joint candidates in snap parliament elections later this month to challenge the government and Marine Le Pen’s far-right Movement. The country’s socialists, greens, communists and the France Unbowed party in a joint release made a call for a shared platform to “present an alternative to (President) Emmanuel Macron and fight against the racist project of the far right”. FRANCE 24’s Andrew Hilliar tells us more.
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