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France entered unknown territory after the results of the general elections. President Macron and his coalition, Ensemble, lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly. Nupes, an alliance of leftist parties, became the first opposition group. On the other hand, the extreme right, RN, obtained a historic result and the traditional right managed to survive. We spoke with Deputy Rodrigo Arenas, who won in the 10th District of Paris under the Nupes label.
Scale In Paris: Nupes will be the first parliamentary opposition group in the Legislature, but it failed to achieve the two main objectives that its leader, Jean Luc Mélenchon, had set for himself. Achieve a considerable seat advantage, and become the Prime Minister of the French. Is it a partial failure?
Rodrigo Arenas: In reality, the failure is not so strong because we managed to unite after a presidential election in which everyone said that the left was dead. He had the ability to meet, create a program and take it to the National Assembly. If we had not held the Nupes, that is, to come together around ideas to repair France, in reality there would have been much fewer deputies from the left in the National Assembly.
EEP: It is surprising that Jean-Luc Mélenchon during his speech after the results of the legislative elections did not say a single word about his defeat, that is, not having achieved the goal of being appointed prime minister.
AR: What happens is that our project was to return to Parliament its letters of nobility. In reality, we are in France in a situation of direct relationship between the president and the people, as if Parliament did not exist because traditionally France is very used, after the presidential election, to having a very comfortable majority for the president who was elected .
For the first time in many years, the president does not have a majority in Parliament and this is a very important event, because it means that we are going to have to change the way of governing, because Parliament is definitely going to take a very important place in the French political life and in particular in the public policies that are going to be decided in Parliament, because a law cannot be passed, or anything, if Parliament does not authorize it.
EEP: When the results were known, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the France Insumisa, cooled the spirits of his peers by proposing the formation of a single parliamentary group, something that was not foreseen in the initial agreement. He made his proposal public without consulting them first. All have said no, but the coalition is now fragmented.
AR: In my case, I received many messages on Messenger and Twitter where the people who voted for me in the legislative elections ask me not to break the union, ‘because we don’t vote for a party, we vote for a movement, for an alliance, so that let the left rule this country again’. There is the goal. In other words, the purpose is to carry out what founded our movement, a program of more than 600 propositions, which are written, on the Internet and can be downloaded freely, to be launched in France.
Actually, that proposal made by Mélenchon does not mean making the parties disappear; It is letting everyone play in their political party, their football team, but we also all have to be able to get together to play in the same French team. That is what has to be done, the technique cannot surpass the national interest that we think we are carrying out.
It is also done in reaction to the massive entrance of the extreme right to Parliament. It is a political response that we have to give because that cannot be an option for our country. Macron served as a scale for the extreme right to enter the government. In the second round, more than 60 Macron candidates did not call to vote for the Nupes candidates against the extreme right. Specifically, when we call for no vote to go to the extreme right in the second round of the presidential election, we see that Macron is unable to shake hands with the other side, because he did not decide between the extreme right and the left.
Specifically, this political game serves him, which from my point of view is very dangerous because we do not defend France itself. So, Macron is going to have to make a choice: he allies himself with the extreme right, or he comes to the left because the general interest is us, democracy is us, equality is us. I hope that he does not take the option of going to political organizations that promote discrimination, racism, and often unequal treatment among French people.
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