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NUPES Alliance Members Reject Melenchon Offer Of Joint Parliament Group

FRANCE

Three of the four parties that formed the leftist 'NUPES' alliance in the French parliamentary election have rejected overtures from head of the largest faction, La France Insoumise (France Unbowed, LFI)' Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to form a single parliamentary group in the National Assembly.

  • Instead the three other parties - the centre-left Socialist Party, environmentalist European Ecology-The Greens, and far-left French Communist Party - have stated that they will sit as independent, separate blocs in the legislature.
  • NUPES won a total of 131 seats in the election, with the following breakdown: LFI-72 seats, Ecologist Pole-27 seats, Socialist Party-26 seats, Communist Party-12 seats.
  • Together, NUPES would have formed the main parliamentary opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble, which lost its majority and will require outside support.
  • However, when NUPES is separated into its constituent parties, the largest non-Ensemble parliamentary group becomes Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) with 89 seats.
  • Crossing the 15-seat threshold means the party can form an official parliamentary group for the first time since Le Pen's father Jean-Marie led the Front National to a then-record 35 seats in the 1980s. This will allow the National Rally additional public funds, greater amounts of speaking time in the National Assembly, and various legislative abilities such as establishing special committees.

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