This call comes after the left-wing parties met on Monday, following the dissolution of the National Assembly and the announcement of early legislative elections, in order to respond to the historic situation the country is going through

The Ecologists, France Insoumise, the French Communist Party and the Socialist Party have reached an agreement in principle for early legislative elections.

‘A few days to form a Popular Front’

This Monday 10 June, the Ecologists, France Insoumise, the French Communist Party, the Socialist Party, as well as Place publique and Génération⸱s, are launching a call for the creation of a ‘new popular front’ bringing together all the forces of the left, whether humanist, trade union, associative or civic. The agreement was reached following the Rassemblement National’s victory in the European elections.

Carrying forward a programme of social and ecological change

In an open letter published this evening, the parties state, ‘We wish to carry a programme of social and ecological ruptures to build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and combat the racist project of the far right’.

‘We will need the people of France, the people of the left’

Fabien Roussel, leader of the PCF, said in front of the Ecologists’ headquarters: “We want to take an oath before you to be united until victory”, after lengthy discussions between the left-wing parties to reach this agreement. The crowd responded by chanting ‘Don’t betray us’. Olivier Faure, Secretary General of the PS, added: ‘We will need the people of France, the people of the left. We are a mixed country, proud of our different origins, which is rising up today to say no to the far right, yes to the left”.

Single candidates ‘from the first round’

The signatories of the open letter also pledge to support single candidates ‘from the first round’ in each constituency for the next legislative elections. They write that these candidates will put forward a programme of change detailing the measures to be taken in the first 100 days of the new Popular Front government, with the aim of responding to urgent democratic, ecological, social and peace issues.