Everyone has their own list. This Sunday, Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of EELV defended her strategy of an independent list in the European elections. Rather than a Nupes union list as in the 2022 parliamentary elections. Guest of "Sunday in politics" on France 3, the boss of Europe Ecology The Greens believes: "We will have more ecologist and left-wing deputies by going there separately". She cited a poll commissioned by her party from Harris Interactive.

Carried out among 1,262 people according to the quota method, it says that separate lists of left-wing parties would accumulate 33% of voting intention (11% for EELV, 10% for the PS, 9% for LFI and 3% for the PCF). If the left-wing parties formed a joint list, it would only win 19% of the vote, with voters turning to dissident lists. The presidential camp (Renaissance - MoDem - Horizons) is due to win 23 to 24%, and the RN 20%, in these configurations (margin of error between 1.8 and 3.3 points).

LFI brandishes another poll

But the LFI deputies relay since Saturday evening another poll of the Ifop for the JDD. She argues that a united list of the Nupes would come out ahead tied with the RN (26% of the vote), ahead of the presidential camp (22%). "Together, we can finish first in the European elections, beat the far right and make the Nupes the alternative to the ending Macronism," LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard said on Twitter.

According to this poll also the separate left parties would obtain more votes in total: 10% for EELV, the socialists and LFI, and 5% for the communists, even if they would each come far behind the RN in the lead at 25% (1,310 respondents, margin of error between 1.1 and 2.5 points).

"We will not be in front of Le Pen," judge Tondelier

Questioned Sunday on BFMTV, the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, rather favorable to a single list, believes that preventing the RN from coming out ahead would install "the narrative" that the far right "has not won all of Europe".

"We will not be in front of Le Pen," said Marine Tondelier, who ensures that a single list would generate dissents on the left that would cost votes. "We have to go find disappointed voters, and we are not going to look for the same Fabien Roussel, me, Manuel Bompard and the PS, that's how it is," she insisted.

  • European elections
  • Politics
  • Europe Ecologie Les Verts (EELV)
  • Nupes
  • La France Insoumise (LFI)