La Nupes can, for the moment, still count on Fabien Roussel. If the leader of the Communist Party calls for the left alliance to “accept the choices of each political force” which composes it, he assures that he does not want to leave it, he explained on Saturday evening.
While a stormy meeting was held Tuesday between the leaders of Nupes, Fabien Roussel wanted to rectify the remarks that LFI lent him, accusing him of having compared the coalition to a ball and chain. “I actually said that Nupes is for me as much a prospect of hope, because we have built a lot together, but it is also a burden if it pulls us down, if it locks us into unavoidable political constructs. If you can’t say what you think, it’s a ball, a straitjacket, a straitjacket, ”he said.
Roussel wants to “expand” the alliance
“When Manuel Bompard said to me: ‘we understand that you want to leave Nupes’, I said ‘no!’ “, he pleaded, assuring that he wanted on the contrary to “expand” the alliance. For him, before talking about the European or presidential elections, the Nupes must focus first “on the historic social movement against pensions”. The deputy from the North asks “that we bring together the 250 parliamentarians who signed the shared initiative referendum, that we look beyond the Nupes and that we take initiatives together” to continue the social battle.
The PCF also supported the idea of a meeting between these parliamentarians and the inter-union, Saturday during the first national council of the party since the re-election at its head of Fabien Roussel. “Political forces, unions, associations, elected officials” could prepare together “a national citizen vote, a popular referendum”, indicates the party in a press release.