Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) NPF left-wing coalition candidate for Prime Minister and economist, Lucie Castets, looks on as she listens to a speech during the first day of French political party Les Ecologistes-EELV's "Summer Days" in Tours, western France, on August 22, 2024. French Ecologists and the Insoumis (French leftist La France Insoumise party - LFI) kick off the new political season with their summer universities on August 22, 2024, a 2024 vintage that will be marked by the left's determination to impose its candidate, Lucie Castets, for Matignon. (Photo by Guillaume SOUVANT / AFP)