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New Ecological and Social People's Union
Political coalition in France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Ecological and Social People's Union[2][3] (French: Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, NUPES[lower-alpha 1]) was a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France.[4][5] Formed on May Day 2022, the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party (PCF), The Ecologists (LE), Ensemble! (E!), and Génération.s (G.s), and their respective smaller partners.[6][7] It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election.[8] Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.[9]
New Ecological and Social People's Union Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale | |
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Abbreviation | NUPES |
Leader | Collective leadership |
Founder | Jean-Luc Mélenchon |
Founded | 1 May 2022 |
Dissolved | 10 June 2024 |
Succeeded by | New Popular Front |
Political position | Left-wing[1] |
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Per a press release,[10] the union's founding goal for the 2022 French legislative election was to deny Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble Citoyens on the centre-right a presidential majority in the National Assembly,[1][11][12] and to also defeat the French far-right.[13] EELV and LFI signed an agreement that had the alliance won a majority of seats, they would have put forward Mélenchon as prime minister of France for a cohabitation.[14][15][16] NUPES won the most seats outside of Ensemble, denying Macron a majority; at the same time, they underperformed expectations, only winning about 22% of the seats and 26% of the popular vote, while the far-right National Rally obtained its best result ever and became the largest parliamentary opposition group, due to NUPES being an electoral alliance.[17]
In October 2023, the coalition's future was put in doubt when the Socialist Party voted a "moratorium" on its participation to the NUPES alliance following LFI leadership's refusal to qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization in the context of the Israel–Hamas war.[18] Ahead of the 2024 French legislative election, the alliance was largely reestablished as the New Popular Front.