Mélenchon increasingly alone: ​​maximalism does not pay, socialists distance themselves and reject the anti-Bayrou motion

“Il New Popular Front he's dead, long live the left" is the headline with satisfaction LeJournal.info, the most appealing site of the French reformist left who has never stopped cheering for the independence of the socialists and for the clear distancing from the maximalism of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who has collected defeat after defeat, ending up by blowing up the New Popular Front. The rejection of the motion of censure presented by Mélenchon against the Prime Minister Francois Bayrou It was just the latest episode of a completely failed strategy. A strategy that of Mélenchon who, since the opening of the polls on July 7, has refused any compromise, that is, the salt of politics, despite not having won an absolute majority. It was inevitable that sooner or later the socialists would rebel against their destiny as followers of a losing group and that is exactly what, despite a thousand qualms, happened. "Mélenchon's Insoumis are shouting, the socialists are working" declared the socialist deputy Jerome Guedj and his words perfectly summarize the situation. The socialists have finally discovered the importance of political compromise compared to the maximalism of words of Mélenchon and have bet on the challenge of governability by opting for a moderate opening to Prime Minister Bayrou, who was thus able to bring home the approval of the 2025 budget, to press him on the choices that are closest to the heart of the reformist left, from the revision of the pension reform, to the tax increase for the richest to measures to support work. Obviously the division of the Popular Front will lead to two alternative candidacies on the left in the presidential elections of 2027 - reformists against maximalists - with the Macronians who will have a good chance of swinging the balance and stemming the rise of Le Pen's right.