La France Insoumise After the Local Elections

by Frederico Lyra

April 13, 2026

Read the full article La France Insoumise After the Local Elections published by Jacobin.

Local elections saw La France Insoumise make its first real gains in taking over city halls. Ahead of the 2027 presidential race, it still badly needs to expand its voter base to have a chance of winning a national election.

The recent local elections across France offer a revealing snapshot of the balance of forces on the Left — and above all, of the position of La France Insoumise (LFI) as it looks toward the presidential elections in 2027. Rather than confirming a crisis or the hegemony of a particular tendency, the results point to a more complex reality. This is a socially dynamic party territorially advancing in some parts of France, yet unable to impose itself as a dominant force across the entire left.

Frederico Lyra

Frederico Lyra de Carvalho is a musicologist and philosopher. His PhD focused on the idea of improvisation, trying to think jazz through Theodor Adorno's negative dialectics. His research interests revolve around Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Brazilian tradition of critical theory. He is also part of the editorial committee of the journals Passages de Paris, Sinal de Menos and Jaggernaut, and he is a member of the Autres Brésils association. With a post-doctorate from São Paulo University, he currently teaches at the Université d'Amiens. He is a research fellow at Alameda.

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