Cover image: The president of the parliamentary group of La France Insoumise (LFI) and of the left-wing coalition NUPES (New Union Popular Ecological and Social) Mathilde Panot at the end of a meeting with the French Prime Minister at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on 3 July 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
A month after a minimal reshuffle, the executive meets on Wednesday August 23 at the Elysée for the back-to-school council of ministers. Remained particularly discreet at Fort Brégançon, Emmanuel Macron promised a “major political initiative” by the end of the month without revealing its nature. A government seminar is in the pipeline for the following week, which will also see the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, intervene when the Medef returns.
As the September senatorial elections approach and the June 2024 European elections are looming, the start of the school year is likely to be lively on the left. Coalified under the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) banner in the Assembly, the parties are openly arguing about the strategy to follow during the next elections. The “rebellious”, whose “amphis” begin on Wednesday, are furious at having obtained nothing from their comrades for the senatorial elections, as well as their refusal of a single list for the Europeans.
On the side of environmentalists, who meet from Thursday in Le Havre, divisions are now crystallizing around the invitation of rapper Medina, accused of anti-Semitism. The latter will also exchange on Saturday at La France insoumise, in the Drôme, with the president of the group of “insubordinate” deputies in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot.
Is La Nupes living its last hours? What strategies will the various left-wing parties adopt in view of the senatorial elections, the European elections and, implicitly, the presidential election of 2027? Follow this political return with us and ask your questions to Julie Carriat, journalist at World responsible for following the left. She will answer it from 11 a.m.
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