The record of La France insoumise, led by Manon Aubry, achieved a greater rating than in 2019, however a lot decrease than that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon within the 2022 presidential election.
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Studying time: 3 min The top of the record of La France insoumise within the European elections, Manon Aubry, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), Could 25, 2024. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
Higher than in 2019 and slightly greater than what the polls predicted. The La France insoumise record, led by Manon Aubry, obtained 9.89% of the votes within the European elections, Sunday June 9, in response to the ultimate outcomes printed by the Ministry of the Inside. A rating considerably greater than the 6.31% in 2019.
It thus completed in fourth place, behind the Nationwide Rally, Renaissance and its allies and the Socialist Occasion. La France insoumise, which had six deputies throughout the Left group within the European Parliament, will now have 9, notably with the election of the Franco-Palestinian jurist Rima Hassan, in response to our Ipsos estimate.
How did the get together react?
The outcomes of the European elections mark the “defeat and the scathing rout of macronism”, launched the pinnacle of the LFI record, in entrance of its activists, shortly following 8:30 p.m. Manon Aubry believes that the rating “traditionally weak” by Valérie Hayer “sanctions an unjust and authoritarian coverage”. “It’s apparent that the nation desires to show the web page on the Macron period”she reacted, including that “this web page should not flip with the Nationwide Rally”who emerged because the winner of the election with 31.5% of the votes, in response to our Ipsos estimate.
Whereas the President of the Republic introduced the dissolution of the Nationwide Meeting, the founding father of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon thought-regarding that he had “raison” to do. Rebellious France “don’t worry the folks”he proclaimed.
Who’re the elected candidates and with which group will they sit?
La France insoumise will ship 9 deputies to the European Parliament, three greater than in 2019. Among the many 9 elected candidates, 5 will start a second time period: Manon Aubry, Younous Omarjee, Marina Mesure, Leïla Chaibi and Damien Carême. Labor inspector Anthony Smith and enterprise supervisor Arash Saeidi turn into MEPs for the primary time. The lawyer Rima Hassan, seventh on the record, may even sit within the chamber. These MEPs will sit throughout the Left group, co-chaired by Manon Aubry, which till now represented the seventh and final pressure within the European hemicycle, with lower than 40 elected officers.
How did the La France insoumise marketing campaign unfold?
The LFI marketing campaign started with a failure: the union record of the left for the European elections by no means noticed the sunshine of day, in contrast to the Nupes electoral coalition for the 2022 legislative elections. one of many different left-wing events, initially Les Ecologistes-EELV, La France insoumise named Manon Aubry head of the record on the finish of January. For 4 months, the 34-year-old MEP has a number of occasions put the presidential camp and the Nationwide Rally once more to once more.
Targeted on the protection of buying energy and the questioning of free commerce treaties, the marketing campaign of La France insoumise additionally centered closely on the query of the warfare within the Gaza Strip. The motion has defended a really outspoken pro-Palestinian place because the terrorist assaults carried out by Hamas on October 7 and the murderous response of the Jewish state.
Rima Hassan embodied this want to mobilize the LFI citizens on this theme, whereas the political penalties of the Israeli-Palestinian battle have been one of many placing themes of latest weeks. “It’s not nearly Gaza” within the marketing campaign, nonetheless, Manon Aubry defended herself one week earlier than the election, on RMC, whereas LFI remained under 10% of voting intentions till the top of the marketing campaign, regardless of a late tremor.
What are the implications for LFI and the left?
As in 2019, La France insoumise fails to rework Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s good rating within the earlier presidential election, an indication that the European elections will not be essentially the most mobilizing election for the novel left motion. However by exceeding 10%, the motion can hope to proceed to have affect on the left.
The record La France insoumise is forward of Les Ecologistes-EELV by Marie Toussaint this 12 months (5.5%) however is left behind by the Socialist Occasion-Place publique of Raphaël Glucksmann (14%), who will attempt to play a extra essential function within the recomposition of the left. Confronted with the dissolution of the Meeting, the left has three weeks to place itself in battle order.
