Nupes is on the verge of implosion. The position, considered too ambiguous, of La France insoumise on the war between Hamas and Israel, will have “serious consequences” on the future of the left alliance, the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure threatened on Wednesday evening. in an interview with Release.
“It is unacceptable that the leadership of La France Insoumise cannot declare that Hamas is a terrorist organization. They turn it into a regular army that would commit war crimes. No ! », Estimates the boss of the socialists, who himself was one of the great architects of Nupes last year.
“The Mélenchon method” in Faure’s viewfinder
“The problem is the Mélenchon method: never look for the center of gravity of the gathering of the left, always radicalize positions without consulting or respecting your partners,” he adds. PS deputies had already suspended their participation in a Nupes counter-budget on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the 2024 budget. “For the moment, we do not want to work” with LFI, explained a socialist source.
The leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, for his part, explained that the alliance had to “work differently” to no longer expose itself to controversies like the one that arose after LFI’s comments on the Middle East.
Hidalgo accuses Faure of taking “everyone into the wall”
Within the PS, where the anti-Nupes, if they are not in the majority, remain very numerous, many voices are putting pressure on the boss of the socialists, calling on him to definitively break with LFI. “We cannot work with people incapable of condemning terrorism. Politics is values, principles. We demand that the Socialist Party immediately suspend any collective political action with LFI,” indicated Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, first delegate secretary of the PS, who has long been hostile to the Nupes.
Tuesday evening, in the columns of Parisian, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, also opposed to the left alliance for a long time, accused Olivier Faure of taking “everyone to the wall”, urging him to show courage. On Wednesday, one of the 31 deputies from the PS group in the Assembly, Joël Aviragnet, for his part announced that he would “not vote for or sign any more common text with rebellious France”.