MEP Manon Aubry confirmed on Sunday that she should be the head of the list of La France insoumise (LFI) for the European elections on June 9, as she was five years ago.
“I am proposing my candidacy to lead the list of the Popular Union. I appeal to all the orphans of Nupes, all those for whom its creation represented hope. I want to tell them: +Join us, come help us!+,”
the 34-year-old parliamentarian
told the newspaper
20 Minutes .
Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party has long campaigned for a common list of left-wing parties but it was not followed by the communists, socialists and ecologists.
These groups will therefore leave in dispersed order for these elections.
Created in 2022, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) imploded last fall anyway, under the weight of disagreements between its members, in particular on the conflict in the Middle East.
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“The Insoumis have already designated me leader. We are now working on developing the list and activists will have the opportunity to vote on the list in its entirety at the beginning of March
,” explained Manon Aubry.
In 2019, the list she led obtained 6.31% of the votes and sent 6 deputies to the Parliament of Strasbourg and Brussels.
According to polls, she is now credited with 7 to 8% of voting intentions.
“The succession of crises (covid, energy, inflation) has brought to light the danger of the dogmas on which the European Union was built. Sometimes European leaders have echoed our words. But the reality is that the European Union remains addicted to free trade, austerity and the commodification of everything. We have to wean her
,” Manon Aubry told
20 Minutes
.
“The energy market has caused our electricity bills to explode. Budgetary austerity has suffocated our public hospital. But no lesson has been learned
,” she added, expressing indignation at the
“worst austerity crisis”
that is looming due to new European rules.