La Nupes, a year of union under the influence of the Insoumis

Nupes deputies go to the first session of the National ***embly on June 28, 2022, ten days after the 2022 legislative elections. François BOUCHON/Le Figaro

“Leave Marina alone!” This Tuesday evening, in this room in eastern Paris, the atmosphere is suddenly tense. For the first time since the creation of the alliance in the spring of 2022, Nupes officials have disconnected videoconferences to finally meet around a table. As expected, it is the subject of the European elections of 2024 which electrifies the debates. And faced with the repeated insistence of the Rogue Manuel Bompard for a common list, PCF Senator Cathy Apourceau-Poly feels obliged to defend the ecologist Marine Tondelier: “She already told you no four times!” “We have an internal democracy”, replies the national secretary of EELV, recalling that her party had elected her in December on the promise of an autonomous list. The ecologist relies on the communists “Anyway, you don’t want a common list either?” Loud cries from the small delegation around Fabien Roussel: “Oh, no, no! Especially not!” Socialists – who want nothing…