Invested by Nupes, the outgoing MP for the first constituency of Ariège, Bénédicte Taurine was re-elected on June 19 with 55.31% of the vote ahead of the candidate of Ensemble!, Anne-Sophie Tribout. Seven months later, this election has just been canceled by the Constitutional Council.This decision is made following a hiccup during the first round of the legislative elections. On June 12, 2022, in certain offices of the constituency, the ballots of the candidate of the National Rally, Jean-Marc Garnier,...
After the strike which mobilized hundreds of thousands of people on Thursday, it is the turn of the youth to pound the pavement this Saturday. A dozen youth organizations are marching this Saturday in Paris against the pension reform, actively supported by La France insoumise which hopes to "bounce back" on the success of Thursday's inter-union mobilization.The organizers do not intend to bring together the million or two million demonstrators – according to police or CGT estimates – who were...
The small local project took on national resonance. On Thursday, deputies from La France insoumise criticized the government's inaction in the face of the "fascist threat" in reaction to the abandonment of a project for a reception center for refugees. Called Horizon and financed by a private fund, this scheme aimed to revitalize the town of Callac, a small rural town in central Brittany, by welcoming dozens of refugees over several years in disused buildings in the town.The announcement of...
The deputy of rebellious France Alexis Corbière conditioned Thursday the return in April of Adrien Quatennens within his parliamentary group to his "actions", ensuring that a new debate would take place on the elected representative of the North, condemned for domestic violence . "Depending on the actions of Mr. Quatennens, we will see if after April 13 he rejoins the group", declared Alexis Corbière on France 2, in reference to the expiry date of the four months of exclusion pronounced...
Deputy Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence suspended by his group La France insoumise, returned to the National Assembly on Wednesday, in the Foreign Affairs Committee, according to several parliamentary sources, confirming information from LCP.Sentenced in December to a four-month suspended prison sentence for "violence" on his wife, the deputy from the North had ruled out resigning, denouncing a "media lynching". He was suspended for a period of four months from the group of LFI deputies, until April 13, 2023,...
“Can we get out of this obsessive neurosis on Jean-Luc Mélenchon? “: the three candidates for the post of first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, posted their differences on Nupes and the alliance with LFI, during a debate on franceinfo on Friday. The first and second rounds of voting by socialist activists to appoint their new leader will take place on January 12 and 19, before a Congress at the end of January in...
Deputy Manuel Bompard was appointed coordinator of La France insoumise "unanimously" by the direction of the movement. Manuel Bompard, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had indicated in December that he would probably "continue" this task, which he had been performing since the withdrawal in September of Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence. The absence, among the 21 members of the “coordination”, of personalities like Alexis Corbière, Clémentine Autain or even François Ruffin triggered the anger of these and part of the...
The anger that has been simmering in the Rogue ranks for the past few weeks is now coming to light. Less than two weeks later the conviction of Adrien Quatennens for domestic violence and his "temporary expulsion" for four months from the LFI group in the Assembly, more than a thousand rebellious and Nupes activists have signed a vitriolic tribune published this Monday, December 26 in The world in which they demand the "exclusion" of the deputy from the North...
"Silence, consternation then explosion of anger": Monday, more than a thousand rebellious activists and Nupes sign a grandstand in The world, to denounce the decision of the movement to exclude only temporarily from its parliamentary group the deputy Adrien Quatennens, condemned for domestic violence. Since the verdict of the trial and the decision of LFI, anger has been organized in the rebellious ranks and press releases from action groups have rained down on social networks, to express their refusal to...
Deputy La France insoumise (LFI) for Seine-Saint-Denis, Clémentine Autain speaks this Sunday in the Sunday newspaper concerning the new organization of the party, announced last week, and the Adrien Quattenens affair.“The decision to compose a direction filled in on itself generates a major crisis. […] Shelving pluralism is not possible. We have a problem of democracy in the life of the movement”, she swings without restraint before opening the door. “To calm the situation and guarantee the unity of the...
