After the strategic differences on the pension reform which weakened the Nupes in the Assembly, La France insoumise relativizes the divisions, a few days before the social mobilization of March 7, and urges its partners to go further in the alliance .
Choice of the Insoumis to maintain until the end their thousands of amendments, unlike its socialist, environmentalist and communist allies, not to examine the article of the text bringing the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years old, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s tweet criticizing the Communists: the two weeks of debate left “traces” within the left-wing alliance LFI-PS-EELV-PCF, note several elected officials from Nupes.
During a press conference, LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard put the divisions into perspective: “it’s not the end of the world”, “it’s not a dramatic disagreement. We imposed our position on no one We did not prevent the other Nupes groups from withdrawing their amendments,” he stressed.
But the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel regretted in the morning that LFI had “rotten the debate” and the EELV deputy Sandrine Rousseau had previously described Mélenchon’s tweet as an “error”.
At the PS, where the first secretary Olivier Faure supports the Nupes, even the most pro-Nupes admit to having a bitter taste.
The sequence is “one of the most serious events” that Nupes has experienced since its birth in the legislative elections last May, concedes PS deputy Arthur Delaporte to AFP, “but these remain strategic differences and not on the bottom”.
And for him, the episode will also have made it possible to “show the autonomy of Nupes vis-à-vis LFI”.
But a national secretary of the PS, Christophe Clergeau, warned on Facebook: “LFI, which wanted to be the soul of Nupes could become its main handicap if this training does not regain a sense of its responsibilities”.
“It’s not LFI against its partners, it’s a majority of LFI and a minority of the others, against the rest”, considers the rebellious deputy Hadrien Clouet, recalling that there were certainly internal divisions among the Insoumis. , but also in the other groups of the Nupes. “MPs from other groups came to tell me: in the end you were right,” he told AFP.
For Manuel Bompard, a common strategy of the Nupes “it can’t be: the rebels, you abandon your strategy because you don’t agree with the others”.
He recalls that LFI had proposed at the time of the creation of Nupes a common parliamentary group, refused by the other partners, on the pretext of maintaining their autonomy. “If we wanted a common position, we had to form a single group”.
But this episode of tension is above all an opportunity for him to bounce back on the request of the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau to move to an “act 2” of the Nupes, “clearer and more democratic”.
He relaunched LFI’s proposal, made in early February to its environmentalist, communist and socialist partners, to “create popular assemblies by cantons, by constituencies, by municipalities”, to revive the “parliament of Nupes”, open to outside personalities , but also to organize common lists.
In the line of sight in particular: a common list for Europeans in 2024, to which some of the partners of LFI have already opposed an end of inadmissibility.
We need “collective discussions on senatorial and European elections, also believes the rebellious MEP Manon Aubry, who proposed in a blog note to “start with an intergroup at European level” and to organize thematic debates on “this what differentiates us, what brings us together, the things that have changed since 2019 or can change”.
“Act II of the Nupes is to accept that we are not right alone, that we can all make mistakes”, she admits, and “that we are now perhaps seen as much by the French as elected Nupes than elected LFI, PS, EELV, PCF or Generations”.
02/22/2023 23:39:26 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
