The record of La France Insoumise (LFI), led by Manon Aubry, collected 8.6% of the votes within the European elections on Sunday (June 9), in line with the first official outcomes. A rating which ought to enable the Insoumis to ship 9 deputies to the European Parliament.
8.6% of the vote in 2024, in comparison with 6.31% in 2019. Sufficient to rejoice the Insoumis activists and deputies gathered for the election night on the Rotonde de Stalingrad, within the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris.
“We’re tremendous pleased. We hoped to do higher than in 2019, and it was profitable”explains MEP Leïla Chaibi to Euractiv.
The Insoumis are available in fourth place, behind the Nationwide Rally (32.3%), the record of the presidential majority Want for Europe (15.4%) and the PS-Place publique record (14.2%).
On stage, the top of the record Manon Aubry, acclaimed by 100 activists, underlines the “defeat and the scathing rout of macronism ».
“Their traditionally low rating sanctions an unfair and authoritarian coverage,” she chants, surrounded by her now future colleagues: the outgoing deputies Damien Carême and Leïla Chaibi, and the newcomers Arash Saeidi, Anthony Smith and Rima Hassan.
“It’s apparent that the nation needs to show the web page on the Macron period »provides the top of the record, warning nevertheless that « cThis web page should not be turned with the Nationwide Rally ».
Confronted with Jordan Bardella’s historic rating, Manon Aubry factors to the duty of the opposite left-wing lists – Greens and PS – who refused to type a typical record on the mannequin of the Common Union (NUPES) for the 2022 presidential election .
“They erased the achievements of 2022 and left the sphere open to the far proper,” she lambasted.
Gaza and the vote in in style neighborhoods
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s technique of focusing the marketing campaign on the Palestinian query and the youth vote appears to have borne fruit.
In current days, the LFI record skilled a last-minute rebound, reaching 8% voting intentions, in comparison with 6% initially of the marketing campaign.
“I used to be on the bottom, in working-class neighborhoods in current days. We felt that there was a enthusiasm that we do not often see for a European election.”explains Leïla Chaibi.
Once more on Saturday, on the eve of the election, an indication for Gaza introduced collectively hundreds of individuals in Paris. Manon Aubry, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Rima Hassan have been current within the procession.
The jurist and pro-Palestinian activist, born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and naturalized French in 2010, was extensively applauded by the demonstrators.
“Palestine is a European topic”insisted the newly elected MEP, when the outcomes have been introduced, congratulating herself on having “gained this battle” and promising to proceed the combat within the European Parliament, from the primary plenary in July.
A couple of minutes following Manon Aubry’s speech, Emmanuel Macron introduced the dissolution of the Nationwide Meeting in a televised speech.
“The president is totally unconscious of saying this on a night when the RN is at 32% and Reconquest! at 6% »MEP Damien Carême protested to Euractiv. « Lhe threat is that we’re witnessing an alliance between the Nationwide Rally and the Republicans, an alliance which might type a majority within the nation. »
The chief of the Insoumis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, quite the opposite welcomed the president’s announcement.
“It have to be admitted that he was proper to dissolve. For what ? As a result of he now not has any legitimacy to proceed his coverage”he advised activists.
Earlier than concluding : “No matter occurs, regardless of the end result, there is no such thing as a different critical and speedy method at our disposal to vary every part than to make use of the ballots.”
