May 1st: The left attempts to show its unity in Dunkirk

Published on May 1, 2025 at 4:58 p.m.

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Marine Tondelier and Olivier Faure alongside ArcelorMittal employees in Dunkirk for May Day. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP

On Thursday, May 1st, several Socialist and Green Party leaders marched together in Dunkirk (Nord) alongside ArcelorMittal employees. The rally, to which Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon claims he was not invited, reveals divisions on the left ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Another step towards a union of the left without La France Insoumise for the 2027 presidential election? On Thursday, May 1, the main leaders of the Socialist Party and the Ecologists marched together in Dunkirk (Nord), without the rebellious leader who, himself, demonstrated in Paris . Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of the Ecologists, Boris Vallaud, Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol – the three candidates for the post of first secretary of the PS –, and personalities such as François Ruffin, thus attempted to form a united front on this emblematic issue, by coming to support the employees and unions of the ArcelorMittal company , where 636 job cuts have been announced.

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