The PS retains its group in the National Assembly and EELV obtains an unprecedented number of deputies, but the left is worried about the historic level of the extreme right.
By
A victory, despite everything. It was, Sunday, June 19, the dominant feeling among environmentalists and socialists, at the end of the second round of the legislative elections. A feeling that was becoming more and more mixed as the evening took place and the final results fell into the constituencies. Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be Prime Minister, but the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) becomes the first opposition to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), was the first to speak up when arriving, around 8:30 p.m., in the Elysée-Montmartre performance hall, in 18
With 16 new deputies (23 in total for the ecological pole), while the party had none of it during the previous legislature, Julien Bayou, elected in Paris (with 58.05 % of the votes), S ‘is congratulated to be able to constitute “the largest group in the history of political ecology.” He records satisfactions. And disappointments. Victorious against the “walker” Alain Fontanel in the Bas-Rhin, the number two of the Greens, Sandra Regol (51.47 %), accesses the National Assembly, while in Paris, Léa Balage El Mariky (49 %) just fail against Stanislas Guerini.
But the “pride” of Julien Bayou mingled with “anger against Emmanuel Macron, who is responsible for abstention and the unprecedented rise of the extreme right because he put an” equal “sign between the NUPPES and the national rally “. Rested” hope. Because what we have built with the cloud, in a short time, will not stop there. “
However, in a fairly dissonant echo, Hélène Hardy, in charge of elections among the Greens, struggled to smile: “The unexpected progression of the national rally, it spoils everything. The assembly has never been so on the right. Our Stake, now, it is to prosper the cloud by finding convergences on our points of disagreement. “
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), later arrived at the Elysée-Montmartre. While the results, first very encouraging the Nuts, ended up tampling. He therefore did not show ecstatic joy at the time of the balance sheet. “Admittedly, we become the second force. We have managed to ward off this fatality of the losing left. We had taken a dream of an impossible feat, but we failed to build a majority. We will have to wonder about the reasons for which we have not succeeded, “he said.
You have 36.75% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.