Manuel Bompard once again advocates union on the left. “Let’s open the discussion on the Europeans of 2024 before the summer”, thus proposes the coordinator of LFI to his partners of Nupes, Sunday in the JDDsaying he is ready to discuss a head of the environmentalist list.
“It would be a mistake to leave separated”, declares the faithful of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while environmentalists have several times opposed an end of inadmissibility to rebellious requests. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône judges that “with a common list, we can win this election and beat the far right and the macronists”.
Differences on the European question
Asked about the possibility of lining up behind the ecologists, Manuel Bompard replies: “We would be crazy if the possibility of a common list failed for this reason. If environmentalists consider that the only option for a common Nupes list is for them to lead it, let’s discuss it.
“I hear that we would not agree on everything,” he adds, referring to ecologists and socialists, pro-European while communists and rebellious are eurosceptic. “But in the 650 measures of the June 2022 program, we had agreed on the European question,” he believes. The Nupes agreement sealed in May 2022 stipulates that the left in power would apply its program by disobeying the European treaties if necessary on certain points, but without calling into question the framework of the European Union.
A “decisive” choice
“We cannot speak of Act II of the Nupes if our first decision is to go to the European against each other”, warns Manuel Bompard. In his eyes, “the choice for 2024 will be decisive for the future” and the presidential election of 2027, because “how to govern the country together if we are not able to carry out common fights at European level? According to him, a program is possible on “the fight against fraud and tax evasion, against social dumping, for ecological bifurcation, for peasant agriculture that respects the environment”.