New Popular Front

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Electoral Alliance

• Country

  France

• Ideology

  Left-wing, Centre-left, Far-left, Socialism

• Other Name

  Ecological and Social Popular Front

• Abbreviation

  NFP

• Formation Date

  2024-06-10

• Key Policy: Funding

  Reintroduce wealth tax, cancel tax breaks for wealthy, raise income tax on highest earners

• Historical Reference

  Popular Front (interwar anti-fascist alliance)

• Official Name (French)

  Nouveau Front populaire

• Key Policy: Minimum Wage

  Raise minimum wage by 14 percent

• Key Policy: Cost of Living

  Freeze prices for basic food items and energy

• Key Policy: Pension Reform

  Repeal 2023 French pension reform law

• Other Name (Ministry of Interior)

  Union of the Left (Union de la Gauche)

• Key Policy: Public Sector & Welfare

  Increase public sector salaries and welfare benefits

• Seats in National Assembly (2024 Legislative Elections)

  182

Timeline

• The 2023 French pension reform law was enacted, which the NFP's platform includes repealing. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2023

• Far-right parties made significant gains in the 2024 European Parliament election, prompting the formation of the NFP. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-06-09

• The New Popular Front (NFP) was launched to contest the 2024 French legislative election. (Source: summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata)

  2024-06-10

• The New Popular Front secured a relative majority in the 2024 French legislative elections with 182 seats in the National Assembly. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-07-07

New Popular Front

The New Popular Front (French: Nouveau Front populaire [nuvo fʁɔ̃ pɔpylɛːʁ], NFP) is a broad left-wing electoral alliance with centre-left, left and far-left factions in France. It was launched on 10 June 2024 to contest the 2024 French legislative election following the gains of far-right parties in the 2024 European Parliament election. The Front stood in opposition to both Ensemble, the presidential camp of Emmanuel Macron, as well as the far-right National Rally. The Front is an alliance of La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Ecologist Pole, the French Communist Party, Génération·s, the Republican and Socialist Left, the New Anticapitalist Party, and other centre-left and left-wing political parties, comprising the majority of left-wing political parties in France. With the unifying motive of defeating the far-right National Rally, its name echoes the interwar anti-fascist alliance the Popular Front. The Front agreed to a common distribution of candidates and political platform. The platform includes scrapping the 2023 French pension reform law, increasing public sector salaries and welfare benefits, raising the minimum wage by 14 percent, and freezing the price of basic food items and energy. This would be funded by reintroducing a wealth tax, cancelling many tax breaks for the wealthy, and raising income tax on the highest earners. On other issues, such as foreign policy and European integration, the Front's policies are closer to the centre-left. Pushing for a mobilization of organized labour, political associations, and civil society, the Front received the largest number of seats in the 2024 legislative elections, gaining a relative majority in the National Assembly with 182 members elected. La France Insoumise won the most seats out of all parties in the alliance, gaining 72 seats total.

Web Search Results

• New Popular Front - Wikipedia

  The New Popular Front (French: _Nouveau Front populaire_( "Help:IPA/French"), NFP) is a broad left-wing electoral alliance with centre-left, left and far-left factions in France.( It was launched on 10 June 2024 to contest the 2024 French legislative election following the gains of far-right parties in the 2024 European Parliament election. The Front stood in opposition to both Ensemble "Ensemble (political coalition)"), the presidential camp of Emmanuel Macron, as well as the far-right [...] On 10 June, the New Popular Front, also called the Ecological and Social Popular Front,( was announced with an intent to "build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and fight the racist project of the extreme right" in the upcoming elections.( The alliance was formed in order to stop the far-right National Rally party from taking power.( The name intends to hark back on the old Popular Front "Popular Front (France)") formed in the 1930s.( The alliance, which in addition to the main left-wing [...] 1. ^The Ministry of the Interior "Minister of the Interior (France)") refers to the Front's candidates as the Union of the Left (French: _Union de la Gauche_).( 2. ^The Ministry of the Interior refers to the Front's candidates as the Union of the Left (French: _Union de la Gauche_).( Other names used for the New Popular Front include the abbreviated form of Popular Front (French: _Front populaire_, FP).(

• The New Popular Front: The French Left Unites

  They’ve united into a mega-alliance termed the “New Popular Front” (Nouveau Front Populaire), in a nod to the anti-fascist united front that governed the country in the 1930s. At the launch of the pact, French Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel declared, “It is time to open a new stage for the left.” [...] The alliance brings together the PCF, France Insoumise (France Unbowed, the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon), the center-left Socialist Party (PS), and Les Écologistes (a green environmentalist party). Rather than competing and splitting the votes of the left, the parties of the New Popular Front will run a block of common candidates in all of France’s 577 constituencies on June 30, dividing the seats among themselves. The alliance was unveiled on June 14 in Paris. [...] Trade unions, mass organizations, environmental groups, and other citizen groups are now all rallying to the New Popular Front. Speaking for the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT, France’s largest union federation) at the launch event, an autoworker from a closed Stellantis plant announced the “full support” of labor. Greenpeace followed, saying the New Popular Front’s program rose “to the challenge of transforming society.”

• What is the New Popular Front, surprise winner of the French election?

  This article is more than 1 year old With a radical manifesto and an uneasy alliance, the left and green alliance has a difficult task ahead Jon Henley in Paris Mon 8 Jul 2024 08.09 EDT Last modified on Wed 2 Apr 2025 08.55 EDT Share The New Popular Front (NFP), a four-party left-green alliance, was the shock winner of Sunday’s French parliamentary election, returning 182 deputies to a 577-seat assembly now split between three large opposing blocs, none with a majority. [...] The French Green party (LE-EELV) is the latest iteration of a movement founded in 1984. It has had two spells in government, joining a leftwing alliance with the PS and Communists in 1997, when its then leader, Dominique Voynet, was environment minister, and another in 2012 under Hollande’s Socialist presidency. [...] The same four parties formed a similar pact, the Nupes, after the 2022 presidential election and before the subsequent parliamentary vote, winning just over 150 deputies as a result. It collapsed last year over personality clashes and major policy differences. The NFP was cobbled together in haste after President Macron decided to dissolve parliament last month following his camp’s heavy defeat in the European elections, with the far-right National Rally (RN) polling at more than 30%.

• What's Next for the New Popular Front? - Dissent Magazine

  In July the New Popular Front (NFP), a coalition of left-wing parties, came out on top in a snap general election in France, winning 193 seats in the National Assembly. The centrist bloc supporting President Emmanuel Macron got 166 seats, the far-right National Rally (RN) 142, and the center-right Republicans forty-seven. [...] A United Left The NFP was launched on June 13 following Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly. It is comprised of the four main parties of the French left: the PS, the Ecologists, the Communist Party (PCF), and LFI. It is an electoral alliance akin to the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES), which formed in May 2022 in the run-up to legislative elections and imploded in October 2023 after LFI refused to categorize Hamas as a terrorist organization.

• La France Insoumise - Wikipedia

  The far-right National Rally achieved unexpected success in the 2024 EU parliamentary election, sparking significant fear of a hard-right parliamentary majority. In June, these fears would result in the formation of the New Popular Front, a left-wing electoral alliance that included La France Insoumise as a founding member. La France Insoumise rallied in the polls after this, with the New Popular Front supporting more extensive co-operation between left-wing parties. The party achieved success [...] sociologist Paolo Stuppia (member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science) discussing the New Popular Front, a broad left-wing alliance of which La France Insoumise was one of its main members, "[w]hile admitting immediate and transitory requests such as that of a better sharing of added value for the benefit of employees, the 'far-left' defends above all a maximalist programme in which the abolition of the capitalist model (today we also speak of fossil capital) occupies a [...] in this election, winning 71 seats. The New Popular Front won 192 seats in total, constituting a plurality, with La France Insoumise contributing the largest proportion of its seats.

• Country

  France

• Instance Of

  Q6138528

• Inception Date

  6/10/2024