Negotiations for an agreement for the legislative elections between La France insoumise and the PS took "a big step forward" overnight, according to one of the negotiators.
According to our information, an agreement in principle between the two delegations has been reached on the distribution of constituencies.
The socialist party obtains 70 constituencies in total, of which 25 to 30 are winnable, that is to say approximately the number of deputies currently.
The National Council of the PS will be seized in the next hours of a global political agreement, and it is he who will decide if he validates it or not.
If this agreement is signed by the PS, it will thus join the communists, the ecologists and of course the rebels within a “New Popular Ecologist and Social Union”.
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From Tuesday morning, the tension was sensitive.
The pressure put on by the Insoumis was close to an ultimatum.
The agreement "must be concluded today", recalled the deputy Éric Coquerel, one of the negotiators.
“At some point, you have to campaign,” hammered, meanwhile, Manuel Bompard on Franceinfo, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The deadlines for sending posters and leaflets to the printer are getting closer.
Applications for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 will take place from May 16 to 20.
“It risks being agitated in the National Council”
The Socialists, they blew hot and cold.
“We are a few steps away from a historic agreement”, assured Pierre Jouvet on Tuesday morning.
But the chief negotiator admitted at the same time, on Europe 1, that there "remained certain settings" and that the PS would be "respected".
The main blockages were programmatic in particular on the right to disobey certain European rules.
And also on the number of constituencies.
“The management has signed but it risks being agitated in the National Council”, confides to us an elected socialist, who hoped at least to obtain 100 constituencies in total, like the ecologists.