The secretary general of the PS recognizes this: “The European question has always been the most difficult question on the left”. So to prevent differences from undermining Nupes, Pierre Jouvet announced in the Sunday newspaper that his party would propose a “debate” “to the whole of the left”, spread out from “the start of the school year in September” to “beginning of November”. The objective is to work on a “gathering” in view of the European elections of 2024.
“Let us put our proposals, our convergences and our divergences on the table. Let’s take the time of construction. Let’s work on a project. At the end of this debate, we will see if a rally is possible, ”he pleads. “We are ready to discuss a Nupes list for the Europeans, but it is the substance that will determine the rest”.
Marine Tondelier against a common list
The question of a single list for Europeans meets in particular with reluctance at Europe Ecologie – Les Verts, 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 claim to be able to put a green ballot in the ballot box”, she said again on Saturday on France Inter.
At the same time, the former party boss Julien Bayou opened the door on France Info to a common list, “on one condition”: to follow “an ecological, federalist line, to reorient Europe”.
Ecologists 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, ”argues Pierre Jouvet, pleading for its enlargement.
“By the summer, we also want to launch in all the departments of the” states general “of the left and ecology to see how to do better”, explains the one who also says he is in favor of a single candidacy on the left to the presidential election of 2027. But by then, “if there were to be a dissolution, it is quite clear that the distribution of the constituencies could not be the same as today”, he assures, estimating that “the balance of power” on the left “are not the same as at the end of the presidential election”.