The left alliance, the big challenge in front of the neoliberal president of France
The second round of the French parliamentary elections on Sunday 29 June 1401 led to the unprecedented defeat of Emmanuel Macron and his supporters. After the announcement of the election results, it became clear that the coalition of the French lefts in the elections, with a common basis, was the right way. The coalition consisting of the Disobedient French Movement, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, and the Greens, entered the elections with the aim of simultaneously fighting the neoliberal policies of the Macron government and establishing the left alliance as an alternative political force, and it succeeded. As a result, Macron's faction lost the absolute majority in parliament.
The result of the recent French parliamentary elections was a major defeat for the newly elected president's camp, which managed to win only 245 seats this time. In 2017, Macron's faction won 308 seats in the parliament, that is, an absolute majority (more than half of the 577 seats) alone and without any alliance with any other forces. Macron's arrogance and inappropriate comments about the candidates of the Left Alliance in the recent election campaign had the opposite effect. Several ministers and high-ranking officials close to the president, including Richard Fran, the speaker of the 2017 parliament, failed to enter the parliament. In this way, Macron's faction has been severely damaged to legislate and advance its neoliberal policies.
It should be noted that Emmanuel Macron's re-election to the presidency on May 4 this year, like his election 5 years ago, was due to the left's vote to prevent the victory of the extreme right. Currently, Macron has to work with the right-wing Republican Party, the only auxiliary force in parliament, to pass his neoliberal austerity laws and programs. Of course, the extreme right has also come to the parliament with power. “Why should we dialogue [and cooperate] less with the extreme right than with the left?” asks Ceylon Mabar, a pro-Macron MP from Paris. And he adds: "Sometimes, the extreme right votes in favor [with us]." Center-right MP Richard Ramos went further, saying he had "no problem with ad hoc deals with the far right." Voices like that of Olivier Veran, the Minister of Parliamentary Relations, are also rarely heard, and very faintly, who do not accept that "the majority depends on far-right votes." However, such a link between the right and the extreme right, which exposes the "neither right, nor left" fraud of Macron, will be disastrous for the deprived classes, workers, and wage earners...
The militant left that enters the new parliament with strength has a heavy task: to fight against Macron's neoliberal programs and to promote populist letters to win over the majority who either did not vote or voted for the extreme right.
Thanks to the success of the "New People's, Social and Environmental Union" (UPAS), the voices of progressives and advocates of environmental protection will be louder. Forces forming this coalition, including supporters of Jean-Luc Melenchon (Disobedient French Movement), the French Communist Party, the Green Party, and the Socialist Party, will each have an independent parliamentary group. They have come to the field with a transition program from several decades of austerity and neoliberalism policies, which has caused people's dissatisfaction and the rise of the extreme right. The program of the left coalition contains more than 650 proposals, including a monthly minimum wage of 1,500 euros, retirement at 60, a youth allowance of 1,063 euros, environmental planning...
