Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, arrives at the headquarters of La France insoumise, in Paris, on May 2, 2022. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP The hours pass and the marathon of discussions for the June legislative elections continues, day and night, at the headquarters of La France insoumise (LFI). Monday, May 2, after the announcement overnight of the conclusion of an agreement with the environmentalists (EELV), it was the turn of the Socialists (PS) to sit down for long negotiations. They entered at 10 a.m. and were supposed to give way to the Communists (PCF) at 2 p.m.; they finally stayed until the evening and the PCF delegation was only able to take their place around 10 p.m. Read also: Legislative 2022 live: after the agreement reached with the ecologists, La France insoumise hopes to conclude with the socialists and the communists Nestled at the bottom of a Parisian impasse, the offices of LFI have become the epicenter of the comings and goings all the way to the left. The other political forces have taken notice. The Republic on the Move (LRM), The Republicans (LR), the far right also applied themselves all day to unravel this attempt at cohesion of a left usually confined to failures and divisions. Read also: Update on the negotiations on the left for the legislative elections: after EELV, the Communists are moving towards an agreement with La France insoumise On the LRM side, the European argument holds the rope: “The environmentalists have agreed to sell wind to voters, that of LFI, but it is a bad wind, that of a populism which draws up a dishonest caricature of Europe ”, is moved on Twitter the European deputy and ex-minister Nathalie Loiseau. Eric Woerth, yet himself a recent defector from LR in the majority, regretted on Europe 1 “political agreements” and the fact that, according to him, there is “ideologically no coherence” between the forces in the process of s combine. For the mayor of Meaux and former president of the UMP Jean-François Copé, “the PS is in the process of dishonouring itself by going to discuss with the extreme left”. Only Eric Zemmour was forced to admit it, sheepishly, on BFM-TV: “Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the left manage to unite. Obviously, Marine Le Pen is not in this state of mind. A novelty: the tripartite discussions Far from worrying about it, the left-wing parties see these invectives as a good sign, the symptom of a growing concern in the face of a camp that is getting organized. At midday, Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS, and the socialist negotiators discuss, divided into three groups – one on strategy, a second on the division of constituencies, the last on the common program, a thorny subject, from disobedience to European treaties to retirement at 60. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, sits down for a lunch with the press. Arbitrator and orchestrator of remote negotiations, the boss of the Socialists has his phone taped to his hand or to his ear. After seeing EELV conclude an agreement with LFI the day before, and like the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel, he calls for this union by sweeping away the reluctance expressed in numbers by the barons of his party. You have 52.48% of this article left to read. The following is for subscribers only.