Like the Socialist Party, La France Insoumise (LFI) will not attend the new meeting of party leaders proposed by Emmanuel Macron on November 17, the left-wing movement announced in a press release on Tuesday, November 7.
“We reject the multiplication of these monarchical exercises aimed at circumventing the debate organized in its constitutional forms (…). This is why we will not participate in this new communication exercise. We will continue to bring our proposals to Parliament,” writes LFI.
“We observe that the President of the Republic’s work on a possible reform of the referendum gives pride of place to the proposals of the right and the extreme right but rules out any possibility of consulting the French on pension reform,” notes moreover LFI.
After Olivier Faure, it is Manuel Bompard who will be missing on November 17. The decision of the LFI coordinator is not surprising: after the first marathon exercise of the “Saint-Denis meetings” at the end of August, he was very skeptical about future participation in an exercise of the same type .
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On the side of the ecologists, an official response will be given on Tuesday, but the entourage of the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, explained on Monday that the presence of the latter would make it possible to discuss environmental and social justice issues. , and to push for a ceasefire in Gaza. The French Communist Party was to meet on Monday to discuss this issue. Its national secretary, Fabien Roussel, has not yet given his response.
As of Monday, Mr. Faure announced that he would not make the trip on November 17. In question, in particular, Mr. Macron’s proposal, in his invitation, to broaden the scope of subjects to “social issues”, including that of immigration.
“This is a call to the Republicans who are clamoring for it, like the RN [National Rally],” responded Mr. Faure. “I will never participate in this deal,” said the socialist, adding that, in his letter, Mr. Macron would close the door to the left’s referendum proposals on the taxation of superprofits and pension reform. And added: “If he wants to marry the right and push the reasoning to the extreme right, great good to him, it will be without me. »
