The New Popular Front recognizes a "worrying and unprecedented explosion" of "racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts" since then.
The characterization of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli territory by the Islamist movement Hamas, which triggered the current war in Gaza, divided the French left, with the France Insubmissa (LFI, radical left) party, in particular, refusing equate Hamas with a terrorist movement.
The program, the result of difficult negotiations between the parties, calls for "acting towards the release of hostages held since the Hamas terrorist massacres", but also the "release of Palestinian political prisoners".
The left-wing alliance also promises to "break with the French government's culpable support for the far-right supremacist government of (Benjamin) Netanyahu [Israel's prime minister] to impose an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and guarantee compliance with the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which unequivocally refers to a risk of genocide".
The text advocates the "immediate recognition of the State of Palestine, alongside the State of Israel, based on UN resolutions", the "embargo on the supply of weapons to Israel" by Paris and the holding of free elections in Palestine under international control.
Also regarding the war in Ukraine, another point of contention on the left, the New Popular Front undertakes to "unfailingly defend the sovereignty and freedom of the Ukrainian people" and to supply Kiev with the "necessary" weapons. The coalition also proposes "sending peacekeeping forces to protect nuclear power plants" in Ukraine.
Domestically, left-wing parties have committed to repealing the immigration law approved in December with the support of the extreme right, which notably restricts the right to asylum.
The left-wing alliance also promises to immediately annul the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, which increases the retirement age from 62 to 64, adopted in the spring of 2023 without a vote by deputies, despite widespread protests in the streets.
The French left-wing parties, the Socialist Party, the environmentalist EELV, Unsubmissive France and the French Communist Party, announced on Thursday that they had reached a final agreement to create the New Popular Front in the face of early legislative elections.
Following the French President's decision to dissolve Parliament with the notable victory of the far-right National Union (RN) party in the European elections on Sunday, the legislative elections in France were scheduled for June 30th and June 7th. July, as the electoral system provides for two rounds.
The alliances between left-wing parties and right-wing parties led the French head of state to condemn, in a press conference on Wednesday, the "turns" and "unholy alliances at both extremes, [between partners] who are not in agreement agreement on almost nothing, other than the positions to be shared, and that they will not be able to implement any program".
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