The New Ecological and Social People’s Union[2][3] (French: Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, NUPES[a]) is a left-wing alliance of political parties in France led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.[4][5] Formed on May Day 2022, the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party (PCF), Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), Ensemble! (E!), and Génération.s (G.s), and their respective smaller partners.[6][7] It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election.[8] Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.[9]
Per a press release,[10] the union’s founding goal for the 2022 French legislative election was to deny Emmanuel Macron‘s Ensemble Citoyens on the centre-right a presidential majority in the National Assembly,[1][11][12] and to also defeat the French far-right.[13] EELV and LFI signed an agreement that had the alliance won a majority of seats, they would have put forward Mélenchon as prime minister of France for a cohabitation.[14][15][16] NUPES won the most seats outside of Ensemble, denying Macron a majority; at the same time, they underperformed, only winning about 22% of the seats despite obtaining 31% of the popular vote, while the far-right National Rally obtained its best result ever and was likely to be the largest parliamentary opposition group due to NUPES being an alliance of parties.[17] Mélenchon said that NUPES should form a single group in parliament.[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ecologic_and_Social_People%27s_Union