La France Insoumise already had its “candidate for the post of Prime Minister”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who dreams of a majority in the National Assembly and of a cohabitation where he would play the leading role.
The party now has a large part of its legislative candidates.
At the head of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, this left-wing coalition bringing together the Socialist Party, Europe Ecology-the Greens and the French Communist Party, France Insoumise published this Tuesday evening a first list of 324 candidates invested in the legislative, with some surprises.
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Should include the militant journalist Taha Bouhafs, candidate for the 14th district of the Rhône, the target of numerous criticisms from other political parties, about his conviction for public insult, which he appealed.
Even Fabien Roussel opposed it, result: the figure of the anti-racist movements preferred to withdraw.
Panot, Corbieres, Autin, Ruffin…
The other identified personalities of France Insoumise will engage well in the battle.
Almost all of the party's outgoing are standing again, including Mathilde Panot (1st constituency of Val-de-Marne), Clémentine Autain (11th of Seine-Saint-Denis), Alexis Corbière (7th of Seine-Saint-Denis), Bastien Lachaud (6th from Seine-Saint-Denis) and Éric Coquerel (1st from Seine-Saint-Denis).
François Ruffin (1st from the Somme), Danièle Obono (17th from Paris), Adrien Quatennens (1st from the North) Ugo Bernalicis (2nd from the North), Caroline Fiat (6th from Meurthe-et-Moselle), Bénédicte Taurine (1st from the 'Ariège), Michel Larive (2nd of Ariège), or even Loïc Prud'homme (3rd of Gironde) represent themselves.
La France Insoumise presents certain executives of the party or the presidential campaign, such as its general secretary Clémence Guetté (2nd from Val-de-Marne), who participated in writing the programs, the election coordinator Paul Vannier (5th from Val-d 'Oise), lawyer Raquel Garrido (5th from Seine-Saint-Denis),
Also included will be Paris councilor Danielle Simonnet (15th from Paris), Île-de-France regional councilor Sophia Chikirou (6th from Paris), national secretary of the Left Party Sarah Legrain (16th from Paris), digital manager by Jean-Luc Mélenchon Antoine Leaument (10th from Essonne).
Recruits on the left and in militant circles
La France insoumise does not hesitate to pick among the other forces of the left.
Will try to be deputies the ecologist Claire Lejeune (7th of Essonne), passed behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon after the primary of EELV, the ex-spokesperson of Sandrine Rousseau in the primary of the ecologists Thomas Portes (3rd of Seine-Saint-Denis).
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The list also includes the former spokesperson for the NGO Attac Aurélie Trouvou (9th from Seine-Saint-Denis), who had taken the presidency of the Parliament of the popular union during the presidential campaign, the spokesperson for the chambermaids who had been on strike for 22 months for better working conditions at the Ibis hotel in Batignolles Rachel Kéké (7th in Val-de-Marne), journalist and founder of the Ecological Revolution for Living (REV) Aymeric Caron (18th in Paris), lawyer Caroline Mecary (7th in Paris), or comedian Gérald Dahan (3rd in Charente-Maritime).
There remains a great unknown.
The list does not include the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has still not indicated whether he is standing for re-election or not.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who stressed on Sunday that he was preparing "rather for the idea of being Prime Minister than for the idea of being a new deputy", will be present Thursday evening at an "aperitif" of the People's Union in Marseilles.
The suspense continues.