during the evening of 17 june, the second round of the legislative elections, buffet issued an appeal to form an "open" group to carry the "people's voice" in the national assembly, singling out the greens (vec) as a potential target. pcf spokesperson olivier dartigolles speculated that the party could secure an alliance "with the non-inscrits, with the elected officials of the dom-tom, with the progressive elected officials of the left", believing that the other forces on the left were sufficient to constitute a parliamentary group. recognizing the predicament of the pcf, ecologist deputy noël mamère proposed that evening that the four members of the greens elected in the legislative elections join the communist deputies in order to provide the necessary support to form a political group in the national assembly, saying that he believed that the green deputies accept the opening proposed by buffet, hoping to sit along the pcf and others on the left in an "autonomous group" in the national assembly, independent of the socialist party (ps); he later added that his invitation was also extended the movement of citizens of jean-pierre chevènement, the radical party of the left (prg), and miscellaneous left. bocuqet on 18 june indicated that "the group was open to the world" but did not signify that it would accept the support of the greens in order to establish a group.