"If we add the hope that Jean-Luc Mélenchon raised in the presidential election and the local establishment of the Communists, I think that we can win something in the legislative elections", advances Assan, member of the movement of young communists of France.
Like him, many activists from left-wing parties present in Paris for the May Day demonstration are in the pre-campaign.
“We are already distributing leaflets to call for a vote,” warns Lenaraud in front of the PCF stand.
For her, the goal is both to "present the party's program" and to "prepare the union of the left".
Even if the discussions between the PC and the insubordinate France seem to have stalled.
EELV and the PS are still in negotiations with France Insoumise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to try to win a majority in the Assembly.
“We don't have five years to lose, especially on ecology,” says Claude, an unsubmissive activist, after a passionate discussion with Jean-Baptiste, who supports him with EELV.
"Both of us can't wait to go towing and campaigning together, engage the latter, (…) because this is the last war before five years without elections, so we have to win this one".
Only Nathalie Arthaud, the spokeswoman for Lutte Ouvrière, present in the May 1 procession, does not wish to participate in the "race for Parliament".
“We are not marching in the union of the left”, insists the former candidate for the presidential election, favoring an “opposition in the street” rather “than in the National Assembly”.