An electric atmosphere between the figures of LFI and the PS. It all started with a tweet from the first secretary of the PS, who, bouncing back to Nicolas Sarkozy’s support for Gérald Darmanin for 2027, wrote this Thursday night: “Hostilities on the right have only just begun. To the left and to the ecologists not to fall into the deadly spiral of division”. A sentence that did not fail to annoy the tenor of the FI. “Incorrigible doublespeak! Unite by dividing in senatorial and European elections? “retorted on Twitter Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Olivier Faure.
This public spade did not please the socialist leader, who proposed to the rebellious leader to discuss it in private. “Dear JLM, I still have the same phone [téléphone] and recently sent you a message inviting you to chat. We can see each other if you want. We can not share the same analyzes without needing to berate each other on Twitter, to the delight of the right and the despair of the left, ”quickly replied Olivier Faure.
“I give my opinion. That’s all “
Shortly after, another post by Jean-Luc Mélenchon followed. “Olivier Faure, I am not insulting you, unlike your friends who expelled us from the senatorial lists and are preparing to do the same in the European and municipal elections. If you want to come back to these sectarian choices, contact the leaders of the FI: Bompard, Panot, Aubry. I give my opinion. That’s all, ”tackled the former socialist senator, who had announced his withdrawal after the presidential election of 2022.
“If you want to meet me, come to the demonstration on September 23 against police violence and the ‘license to kill’ law that you have still not denied”, he added in reference to the Cazeneuve law. of 2017 which governs the use of firearms by police and gendarmes.
Union or not?
Since the creation of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) for the legislative elections of 2022, tensions have often been high between the rebels and their socialist, environmentalist and communist allies despite a unity of views on the file of the retreats.
LFI in particular pleaded for a common list in the European elections of 2024, while the Greens and the Communists have already named their leaders for this election. Regarding the senatorial elections, which will take place in more than a month, on September 24, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the ecologists have reached a partial agreement, without including La France Insoumise, in several departments.
What to wonder last month on his blog Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of the movement mélenchoniste, on “the sincere will of our partners to continue Nupes”. The Insoumis have no elected to the Senate, controlled by the right, against 64 for the Socialists.