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					<description><![CDATA[<p>L'ambiance est à couteaux tirés vendredi à l'Assemblée nationale française pour l'ultime journée d'examen sur la réforme des retraites: les chances d'aborder la mesure clé sur le report de l'âge restaient très maigres.</p>
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<p style="font-size:17px">L&rsquo;ambiance est à couteaux tirés vendredi à l&rsquo;Assemblée nationale française pour l&rsquo;ultime journée d&rsquo;examen sur la réforme des retraites: les chances d&rsquo;aborder la mesure clé sur le report de l&rsquo;âge restaient très maigres.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">🗣 Dernier jour de débat à l’Assemblée pour la réforme des retraites ➡️ “Il reste 9 000 amendements. Cette stratégie de retirer progressivement les amendements d’obstruction reflète bien cette stratégie de la Nupes de bloquer le débat démocratique”, fustige Franck Riester. <a href="https://t.co/CyKvLBC6Fs">pic.twitter.com/CyKvLBC6Fs</a></p>— franceinfo (@franceinfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1626486312785133571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<p>Entre rappels au règlement et suspension de séance, les débats n&rsquo;avancent guère sur la question du financement du système. Et les mines sont fatiguées au bout de deux semaines très houleuses d&rsquo;examen.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">EN DIRECT &#8211; Réforme des retraites: LR se met d&rsquo;accord avec le gouvernement sur le dispositif des carrières longues<a href="https://t.co/LOMwBNCDf9">https://t.co/LOMwBNCDf9</a> <a href="https://t.co/6qIFaTmHIK">pic.twitter.com/6qIFaTmHIK</a></p>— BFMTV (@BFMTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1626643817012072448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<p>A minuit, où qu&rsquo;en soient les échanges, le rideau tombera au Palais Bourbon. Une motion de censure déposée par le Rassemblement national (RN), mais qui ne présente aucun risque de faire chuter le gouvernement, sera examinée juste après, en présence de la Première ministre Elisabeth Borne. Le texte partira ensuite au Sénat.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">2000 amendements à discuter</h3>



<p>Il y a « très peu de chances que nous allions jusqu&rsquo;au bout du texte » ce vendredi, a déploré sur franceinfo Franck Riester, ministre des Relations avec le Parlement. « On ne sait même pas si on va pouvoir aller jusqu&rsquo;à l&rsquo;article 7 » qui prévoit le report de 62 à 64 ans de l&rsquo;âge légal.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">🗣 Dernier jour de débat à l’Assemblée pour la réforme des retraites ➡️ “Il reste 9 000 amendements. Cette stratégie de retirer progressivement les amendements d’obstruction reflète bien cette stratégie de la Nupes de bloquer le débat démocratique”, fustige Franck Riester. <a href="https://t.co/CyKvLBC6Fs">pic.twitter.com/CyKvLBC6Fs</a></p>— franceinfo (@franceinfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1626486312785133571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<p>A qui la faute? Chacun se rejette la responsabilité. Franck Riester accuse par exemple la gauche de « bloquer le débat démocratique ». Quelque 2000 amendements restent à discuter avant cet article 7, dont 1900 des Insoumis, a pointé la présidente de l&rsquo;Assemblée Yaël Braun-Pivet, les autres formations de la Nupes ayant, elles, retiré les leurs pour avancer.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">« Ne pas se précipiter »</h3>



<p>Jeudi soir, le leader de La France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon a jugé « incompréhensible » des retraits d&rsquo;amendements à gauche, et appelé les députés à ne pas se « précipiter » vers l&rsquo;article 7.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">VIDÉO &#8211; Réforme des retraites : quel bilan pour la 5e journée de mobilisation ? <a href="https://t.co/gtLinHjmVt">https://t.co/gtLinHjmVt</a> <a href="https://t.co/imf0dIhIoj">pic.twitter.com/imf0dIhIoj</a></p>— LCI (@LCI) <a href="https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1626529785781288960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<p>Jean-Luc Mélenchon, qui n&rsquo;est plus député, a été au centre d&rsquo;un ping-pong vendredi matin. « Quelles sont les instructions pour aujourd&rsquo;hui? », a raillé Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance). « Vous n&rsquo;êtes plus La France insoumise mais La France indécise », a taclé le ministre des Comptes publics, Gabriel Attal.</p>



<p>La Nupes est divisée sur l&rsquo;opportunité d&rsquo;aller au vote sur l&rsquo;article 7, comme l&rsquo;en pressent les syndicats qui ont organisé jeudi une cinquième journée de mobilisation. Olivier Faure, premier secrétaire du PS, a reconnu vendredi sur France 2 « des divergences tactiques » au sein de l&rsquo;alliance de gauche, mais qui « ne sont pas insurmontables », car « nous sommes tous opposés à cette réforme ».</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Réforme des retraites : la CGT appelle à une grève reconductible dans les raffineries dès le 6 mars <a href="https://t.co/PRSkqSZFqd">https://t.co/PRSkqSZFqd</a></p>— CNEWS (@CNEWS) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNEWS/status/1626623232005505025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Plus d&rsquo;un million de personnes rassemblées</h3>



<p>Olivier Faure, Premier secrétaire du PS, a reconnu sur France 2 « des divergences tactiques » au sein de l&rsquo;alliance de gauche, mais qui « ne sont pas insurmontables », car « nous sommes tous opposés à cette réforme ».</p>



<p>Les manifestations ont rassemblé jeudi 1,3 million de personnes selon la CGT et 440&rsquo;000 selon le ministère de l&rsquo;Intérieur. C&rsquo;est le chiffre le plus faible depuis le début de la mobilisation, dans l&rsquo;attente du 7 mars où les syndicats menacent de mettre le pays « à l&rsquo;arrêt » si le gouvernement ne retire pas la réforme.</p>



<p>Les Républicains eux-mêmes, qui ont contribué mercredi au rejet de l' »index senior », soufflent le chaud et le froid, certains posant des conditions sur les carrières longues pour soutenir la réforme.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[<p>En France, les résultats des législatives de dimanche montrent un Parlement éclaté en trois blocs. Avec 245 députés, Emmanuel Macron perd sa majorité absolue face aux percées de la gauche de Jean-Luc Mélenchon (137 sièges) et du Rassemblement national (89 députés). La fin d'un cycle pour le président, qui devra désormais composer avec le retour de la négociation parlementaire.</p>
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<p class="has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size">En France, les résultats des législatives de dimanche montrent un Parlement éclaté en trois blocs. Avec 245 députés, Emmanuel Macron perd sa majorité absolue face aux percées de la gauche de Jean-Luc Mélenchon (137 sièges) et du Rassemblement national (89 députés). La fin d&rsquo;un cycle pour le président, qui devra désormais composer avec le retour de la négociation parlementaire.</p>



<p>Pour la première fois sous la Cinquième République, le peuple français a donc décidé de ne pas donner de majorité parlementaire au président à la suite de son élection. Il aura manqué près de 40 députés à Emmanuel Macron pour atteindre cette majorité absolue. De plus, trois ministres devront démissionner car ils ont été battus dans leur circonscription respective. Un revers électoral très sévère pour le président, qui devra désormais apprendre à construire des majorités différemment et au cas par cas.</p>



<p>Face à cet échec retentissant, les représentants du pouvoir sont restés pour l&rsquo;heure évasifs. « Nous tendons la main aux députés de bonne volonté », disent-ils en choeur. Dans une brève allocution, la Première ministre Elizabeth Borne a quant à elle promis une majorité d&rsquo;action et d&rsquo;oeuvrer dans le dialogue. Au final, c&rsquo;est sans doute la droite qui pourrait faire l&rsquo;appoint, mais tout apparaît encore incertain. Une chose est cependant sûr, le régime présidentiel tout-puissant a pris fin dimanche.</p>



<p>« Les Républicains (et leurs alliés) sont à 75 députés et tous ne sont pas d&rsquo;accord, car tous ne veulent pas de ce pacte de gouvernement. La question est donc de savoir combien accepteront », explique dans l&rsquo;émission Tout un monde Laetitia Krupa, éditorialiste à Franceinfo et à Public Sénat.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">La dédiabolisation du Rassemblement national</h3>



<p>Du côté des oppositions, les députés RN ont sans aucun doute été la grande surprise de ce scrutin. De 8 après les élections de 2017, ils seront près de 90 lors de la prochaine législature; des résultats qui vont bien au-delà de ce que Marine Le Pen elle-même prédisait.</p>



<p>C&rsquo;est une « victoire historique », juge Laetitia Krupa. « La dernière fois que le Front national avait eu un groupe à l&rsquo;Assemblée nationale, c&rsquo;était en 1986 à la faveur de la proportionnelle, une parenthèse dans l&rsquo;histoire de la Cinquième République (&#8230;) C&rsquo;est la première fois que le Rassemblement national réussit à avoir un groupe au scrutin majoritaire à deux tours, et pas n&rsquo;importe lequel. Ils sont plus nombreux que Les Républicains et donc que la droite traditionnelle », ajoute-t-elle.</p>



<p>D&rsquo;après la spécialiste, ce résultat, associé également à la nette progression de Marine Le Pen lors de la dernière présidentielle, montre que la stratégie de « dédiabolisation » du parti a fonctionné. Le Rassemblement national est désormais un parti comme un autre pour les Français.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">L&rsquo;union de la Nupes déjà en danger?</h3>



<p>Quant à la gauche unie, elle effectue un spectaculaire retour en force sur les bancs de l&rsquo;Assemblée. La Nouvelle union populaire écologique et sociale (NUPES) sera la première force d&rsquo;opposition.</p>



<p>Même s&rsquo;il échoue dans son objectif proclamé d&rsquo;imposer une cohabitation, le camp emmené par Jean-Luc Mélenchon compte jeter toutes ses forces pour entraver autant qu&rsquo;il le peut les réformes voulues par Emmanuel Macron.</p>



<p>Pour Laetitia Krupa, si vendre l&rsquo;idée d&rsquo;un Jean-Luc Mélenchon Premier ministre était un « coup de maître » du point de vue de la communication politique, l&rsquo;union de gauche pourrait très vite se disloquer.</p>



<p>« Dès mercredi, les groupes vont reprendre leur casquette. Il y aura un groupe socialiste, un groupe écologiste, un groupe communiste et, bien sûr, un groupe France insoumise, beaucoup plus fourni », détaille-t-elle. Les divergences et oppositions pourraient donc morceler un peu plus encore l&rsquo;Assemblée.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Un souvenir de la Quatrième République?</h3>



<p>L&rsquo;éditorialiste estime par ailleurs que ces résultats montrent que la volonté d&rsquo;Emmanuel Macron de dépasser le clivage gauche-droite est désormais « caduc ».</p>



<p>Avec un Parlement fracturé, il est donc à craindre une France paralysée où l&rsquo;Assemblée nationale pourrait rappeler les souvenirs de la Quatrième République, conclut-elle.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Faced with the threat of a hung parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling coalition has shifted its fire from the far right to a new left-wing bloc after a first round of parliamentary elections that exposed the inadequacy of its campaign and the narrowness of its support base.</p>
<p>L’article <a href="https://worldopinions.net/analysis-macron-or-chaos-french-ruling-party-flags-red-menace-in-tight-election/6657/">Analysis. Macron or chaos: French ruling party flags red menace in tight election</a> est apparu en premier sur <a href="https://worldopinions.net">World Opinion | Alternative Média</a>.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size">Faced with the threat of a hung parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling coalition has shifted its fire from the far right to a new left-wing bloc after a first round of parliamentary elections that exposed the inadequacy of its campaign and the narrowness of its support base.</p>



<p>You know France’s presidential camp is in trouble when the commander-in-chief suits up for a tarmac address, complete with engines revving, to warn that an inconclusive election puts the nation in danger. That’s how Macron waded into the country’s legislative polls this week, urging voters to hand him a “strong majority” in the second and final round on Sunday – in the name of France’s “higher national interest”.</p>



<p>“In these troubled times, the choice you’ll make this Sunday is more crucial than ever,” Macron said on Tuesday, moments before boarding a flight to visit French troops stationed near Ukraine. “Nothing would be worse than adding French disorder to the world’s disorder,” he warned with the presidential plane in the background, his statement carefully choreographed for dramatic effect.</p>



<p>“Not one vote should be missing for the Republic,” the French president added, appearing to equate his own political fortunes with those of the country and its cherished republican regime.  </p>



<p>Macron’s live statement was a reminder of the extraordinary backdrop to France’s latest electoral cycle, unfolding in the shadow of a catastrophic war that is fuelling instability, price spikes and food insecurity in parts of the world. It also highlighted the febrility that has gripped the presidential camp as it faces the prospect of a hung parliament thwarting its domestic agenda over the next five years.</p>



<p>Just weeks after securing his own re-election, the French president saw his ruling coalition slump to a dead heat in the first round of parliamentary elections on June 12, matched by a left-wing alliance cobbled together only last month. While the ruling party and its allies are still expected to win more seats in next Sunday’s run-offs, there is a significant chance they could fall short of an absolute majority.</p>



<p>Macron’s allies have described the prospect of a hung parliament as an electoral “anomaly” and a threat to the country’s stability. Hoping to drum up support ahead of Sunday’s run-offs, they have doubled down in their attacks against the leftwing “NUPES”, a broad alliance spanning the left of France’s political spectrum but dominated by the hard-left <em>La France insoumise </em>(LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.</p>



<p>The leftist firebrand is hoping to force the president into sharing power in a “cohabitation”. Moments after Macron’s airport statement, he mocked a “Trumpian stunt designed to raise the spectre of an enemy within”.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The party of order</strong></h2>



<p>It wasn’t so long ago that Macron and his allies were busy cultivating Mélenchon’s supporters, whose votes they needed to defeat the far right’s Marine Le Pen in the April 24 presidential run-off. For all their differences, “Macronists” and “<em>Insoumis</em>” were allies in defending the Republic against the far right. As Macron’s ally Richard Ferrand, the head of the National Assembly, argued at the time, “we share common values”.</p>



<p>But that was then. Two months on, the ruling party has singled out the veteran leftist and his fledgling coalition as the new threat to the Republic. It has portrayed the NUPES as another extremist outfit – in the words of Macron’s former education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, an extreme “just as dangerous as [Le Pen’s] far right”.</p>



<p>It’s a narrative that fits well with Macron’s moderate constituency, says Jean-Yves Dormagen, a professor of political science at the University of Montpellier and the head of polling institute&nbsp;<a href="https://cluster17.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cluster17</a>.</p>



<p>“What binds together Macron’s camp, more than a political project, is a rejection of extremism, of populism, of figures deemed too radical and extreme, like Mélenchon or Le Pen,” Dormagen said. “When Macron presents himself as the head of the ‘republican camp’, of the party of order and stability, he highlights that which underpins his electoral coalition: namely a desire for good governance, stability, order and the status quo,” he added. “That’s the cement holding together his support base – a coalition of centre-right and centre-left voters who disagree on most other issues.”</p>



<p>From their perspective, France’s current electoral cycle can be seen as the fulfilment of Macron’s raison d’être: to keep the middle ground in power and bat away the “extremes”, from right or left.</p>



<p>“Whether he’s facing Le Pen or a left-wing bloc perceived as radical, dangerous, fostering economic disorder, Macron sticks to the same narrative, casting himself as the competent and sensible option,” Dormagen said.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">‘Gallic Chavez’</h2>



<p>While the NUPES’ plans to invest massively in public services and the green economy are certainly ambitious, Mélenchon’s often fiery rhetoric has fostered the impression of a more radical platform than it actually is. Threats to “disobey” EU rules capping budget deficits have caused particular alarm, with critics warning that the left would put France on a collision course with Brussels.</p>



<p>Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has described Mélenchon as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/legislatives/bruno-le-maire-jean-luc-melenchon-est-un-chavez-gaulois-20220531" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Gallic Chavez”</a>, a reference to his past praise for the late leader of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution”. Christophe Castaner, a former Socialist and the ruling party’s most senior lawmaker,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/legislatives-christophe-castaner-cible-la-nupes-et-ses-cliches-du-monde-sovietique_fr_629c6244e4b0b1100a65b0f1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said</a>&nbsp;the NUPES programme was “stacked with clichés from the Soviet era”.</p>



<p>Unsurprisingly, some of the fiercest attacks levelled at the left have come from ministers whose jobs are on the line in next Sunday’s run-offs – like Amélie de Montchalin, the environment minister and senior cabinet member who trailed her left-wing rival by 7 points in her constituency south of Paris after the first round of voting on June 12.</p>



<p>The next day, Montchalin appealed “to all republicans” to hold off the “far-left anarchists” who “promise disorder and submission for France”. Speaking on CNews, she framed the election as a “referendum for Europe and against disobediance, a referendum for order and against street disorder”, seemingly unfazed by the fact that her opponent, veteran Socialist Jérôme Guedj, hardly qualifies as a radical.</p>



<p>Her cabinet colleague Clément Beaune, the junior minister for Europe who is locked in a tight race in Paris, focused his attacks on members of Mélenchon’s party, warning that “all NUPES lawmakers, particularly those coming from&nbsp;<em>La France insoumise</em>, will be a source of agitation and provocation (…) and won’t work for the benefit of the country”.</p>



<p>Others sought to equate the far right and the radical left, conflating them under the “extremist” banner and suggesting a porosity between the two. Élisabeth Borne, Macron’s newly appointed prime minister, set the tone just minutes after the first-round exit polls, warning of an “unprecedented confusion between the political extremes”.</p>



<p>The warning appeared to confuse some in her own ranks, not least the former sports minister Roxana Maracineanu, who raised eyebrows – and sparked outrage – by invoking a “Republican Front” (traditionally an anti-Le Pen alliance) against her second-round opponent Rachel Kéké, the chambermaid who shot to fame after leading a groundbreaking campaign for decent pay and better working conditions at a Paris hotel. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">A thriller waiting for an audience</h2>



<p>Kéké’s story alone is enough to make the current parliamentary vote one of the most compelling in recent decades. So is that of Stéphane Ravacley, the Besançon-based baker who went on a hunger strike to halt the deportation of his Guinean apprentice. Both topped their respective races after the first round of voting. Victory next Sunday would signal a small revolution in an Assembly that has been stripped of working-class representatives over the years.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) sat alongside Spain’s Podemos, Greece’s Syriza, the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US and Labour under Jeremy Corbyn as part of a worldwide “left populist wave” that combined charismatic leadership with radical policies.</p>
<p>L’article <a href="https://worldopinions.net/melenchons-lesson-to-the-left-less-socialism-more-social-democracy/6648/">Mélenchon’s lesson to the left: less socialism, more social democracy</a> est apparu en premier sur <a href="https://worldopinions.net">World Opinion | Alternative Média</a>.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size">In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) sat alongside Spain’s Podemos, Greece’s Syriza, the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US and Labour under Jeremy Corbyn as part of a worldwide “left populist wave” that combined charismatic leadership with radical policies. He channelled French citizens’ anger at austerity policies – blamed on Brussels bureaucrats – and proposed an exit from the EU (in case treaty change was not achieved) and Nato. Mélenchon held rallies looking like an enraged tribune of the people in a Mao suit, and took swipes at the French elite: “the caste and its puppets” and the “ignoble” politicians of the socialist party. While <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2022/06/12/three-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-nupes-the-latest-rebirth-of-the-french-left_5986544_5.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">his presidential bid</a> scored an impressive 19%, only 11% voted for the party in the parliamentary elections.</p>



<p>The situation is very different now. A more amiable Mélenchon leads the Nupes (Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale) coalition that <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2022/06/13/french-legislative-elections-nupes-makes-headway-but-now-faces-anti-melenchon-front_5986620_5.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">polled a hair ahead</a> of Macron’s Ensemble coalition in the first round of the French parliamentary elections this week – 26.1% to 25.8%. This is a stunning result for the left after decades on the margins. While it remains unlikely that Mélenchon will win enough MPs in the second round to claim the role of prime minister in an uneasy co-habitation with president Macron, a powerful case has been made for the attractiveness of a left alternative to Macron’s neoliberal centrism.</p>



<p>Key to this is Mélenchon’s own evolution from the populist insurgent accused of dividing the left and adopting a nationalist stance, to the politician who has managed to reunite the left for the first time in 20 years and convince the public it is fit for government. Other leftist projects that emerged in the turmoil of the 2010s may want to draw lessons from it.</p>



<p>Mélenchon’s 2022 strategy shifted from geopolitical issues in favour of bread-and-butter policies: raising the minimum wage to €1,500 a month after taxes, reducing pensionable age to 60 (Macron wants to raise it from 62 to 65), and the introduction of price controls to protect people from the cost of living crisis – pragmatic demands compared to the previous electoral cycle. As the University College London professor Philippe Marlière <a href="https://braveneweurope.com/philippe-marliere-can-the-nupes-revive-the-french-lefts-fortunes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">has noted</a>, the Nupes programme is “radical reformist”, and contrary to the 1972 left unity programme, it does not specifically call for a “transitional break with capitalism”.</p>



<p>Alongside this, the 70-year-old Mélenchon has softened his revolutionary image. He has adopted a presidential tone, presenting himself as an able statesman who is aware of the need to find compromises with other parties and even certain sections of capital. The radical policies on the EU and Nato of 2017 that were particularly beloved by some left militants – but attracted wide criticism – has been bracketed as part of a common alliance programme. Furthermore, Mélenchon has emphasised his statesman credentials as a long-term politician and former minister and his readiness to govern.</p>



<p class="has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size">From the leader of France’s Nupes coalition to Bernie Sanders, radical left firebands are shifting their focus and style</p>



<p>Mélenchon’s trajectory exemplifies a more general trend in the European and international left: many former left populists have now de facto become radical reformists: toning down their more identitarian rhetoric and anti-establishment antagonism to focus on the concrete policy solutions they have on offer. In Spain, the left has moved from the charismatic, sometimes rambunctious leadership of Pablo Iglesias to the more reassuring figure of Yolanda Díaz. Díaz is a labour lawyer from a family of trade unionists but is widely respected for her administrative competence and for delivering an effective furlough programme during the pandemic and on her promise<strong>&nbsp;</strong>to pass reform on temporary contracts.<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Significantly, her keyword is “<em>diálogo</em>” (dialogue): she insists that while defending the interests of workers, she wants to find a compromise with entrepreneurs in the general interest of the country.</p>



<p>During the 2010s, Sanders launched strong attacks against the establishment of the Democratic party in the US. But he has since tried to forge an uneasy alliance with Joe Biden against the obstructionism of centrist Dems such as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who have stalled the US president’s flagship Build Back Better social package. He now heads the powerful budget committee in the Senate and has tried to redirect economic policy discussion in Congress in a more progressive direction.</p>



<p>In the UK there has not been such maturation of the<strong> </strong>left populism of the 2010s into radical social democracy. Rather, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has almost completely abandoned Jeremy Corbyn’s policies without even doing much to try to co-opt some of his more promising young leaders and thinkers, as Biden has tried to do on the other side of the Atlantic.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/12/france-polls-voters-who-emmanuel-macron-identity"></a></p>



<p>Former leaders of the 2010s left-populist movement softening their stances doesn’t mean their original movement was wrongheaded. It was a necessary<strong>&nbsp;</strong>moment of recomposition and reconstruction of a new left identity for the 21st century. But the focus is now shifting away from identity-building to the more painstaking task of coalition-building and policy delivery rather than charismatic appeals. Many involved are aware<strong>&nbsp;</strong>that they were perhaps wrong to frame as “radical” and “uncompromising” policies that were often quite commonsense social democratic offers – had they been given a softer branding, these may perhaps have proven appealing also to people who do not necessarily define themselves as “anti-capitalists”.</p>



<p>Various opinion polls show that in Europe and the US, there is a wide section of the electorate looking for politicians and parties offering redistributive socio-economic policies to fight against ballooning inequality. These are policies that were once offered by traditional centre-left parties and figures that have since mostly abandoned any pretence of being social democratic and enthusiastically embraced liberal pro-market policy – as is most evident precisely in the case of Macron. The new left that emerged over the course of the 2010s can now step into that void. Socialism may have to wait, but social democracy is there to be claimed.</p>



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<p>By Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and King’s College London and the author of The Great Recoil &#8211; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/15/melenchon-france-new-left-bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">theguardian.com</a></p>
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