Transnational lists, citizens’ lists, … will these innovations pay off in May 2019 ?
The European elections are fast approaching and they will be the first in which Benoît Hamon’s young party, Génération.s, will have a real stake, almost two years after its founding. It is safe to say that the outcome will be viewed as an indicator of the party’s credibility and potential to carve out a place for itself within the Left, between Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise, which has been losing support, and the Socialist Party, which is still trying to stay afloat a year and a half after the presidential elections. It is indeed a risk that Hamon chose to take when he announced, on October 29, that a ’list of citizens’ would represent Génération.s for the European elections in May.