Paris, July 1 (EIRNS)—In recent days French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is busy negotiating with different parties in order to build absolute majorities on separate issues, be it Ukraine, retirement age, improvement of living standards, etc., in order to be able to govern. In the first round of negotiations, President Emmaneul Macron had included a proposal for a national unity government, which was rejected because he didn’t want to make compromises himself.
He then announced that he would negotiate with all parties except with the LFI-NUPES (the left-socialist party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon) and the RN (the right wing party of Marine Le Pen). But reality is moving in the opposite direction. The weekly Le Point published on June 23 an article entitled: “LFI-RN, Is There a Revolutionary Front at Work?” in which they reveal with precise figures that neither the RN nor the LFI could have won the seats they won in the second round against the Macron candidates, without LFI electors voting for RN when there was a duel between RN and Macron, and vice versa when the duel was LFI with Macron. That the left or anybody would vote for the Le Pen party, was until now a taboo. But clearly the so-called “Republican front,” which blocked all RN candidates from being elected, has gone bust, and instead, says Le Point, a “Revolutionary front” is operating, in which these two have united to defeat Macron.
Le Point cites investigative work of polling agencies such as Harris Interactive, IFOP and IPSOS, all confirming the tendency. Harris says that in one instance, as much as 24% of the RN vote went to electing an LFI-NUPES candidate against Macron; and the opposite was true in the same amount to elect an RN candidate.
Le Point says those two parties share a very fluid electorate of 2 million voters. These “cross-party alliances” worked well in areas where two of the main lieutenants of Macron were defeated: Christophe Castaner, head of the Macron party at the National Assembly, and Richard Ferrand, the president of the National Assembly himself. Castaner was defeated by an LFI-NUPES candidate, Leo Walter, who came in second with only 29% of the vote, and having no voter reserves to draw upon from the left in the second round. Normally he would have lost, but lo and behold, he found 6,000 extra votes and won! In another case, an RN candidate in the same situation found 8,000 new votes in his favor and against Macron’s candidate. In the case of Castaner, one of the main leaders of the RN, Marine Le Pen’s former husband Louis Alliot called on people in that area to hold their noses, if need be, but to vote for the LFI-NUPES candidates in order to defeat Macron’s strong man Castaner.
Jacques Cheminade has been insisting that these two electorates should come together around key policies such as France pulling out of NATO, or going for deep financial reforms such as a New Bretton Woods.
