At Nupes, the language of wood does not seem any more with the order of the day to make hear the divergences. The leaders of the left-wing coalition indeed debated the European and presidential elections in a sometimes tense climate, Wednesday in Paris during the “university” of Release.
For its 50th anniversary, the daily brought together at the Sorbonne the leaders of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard, the Greens Marine Tondelier, the Socialist Party Olivier Faure and the Communist Party Fabien Roussel. The protagonists quickly moved away from the initial theme of radicalism to replay the essence of the meeting behind closed doors a few weeks ago.
Tondelier regrets the “political grub”
“The results of Nupes are positive, and to do better it must not only be an electoral agreement of the past”, but “that the coalition appear in a stable way in all the elections”, and in the first place in the European of 2024, pleaded Manuel Bompard.
“I will defend the Nupes as much as necessary”, swore Marine Tondelier, but the European “are a proportional ballot in one round, one of the only elections where you can vote as you want”. The leader of EELV snapped: on Europe, “I am sad that people only talk to me about political grub”. Nevertheless “I agree to a joint candidacy in 2027”, she recalled.
The Roussel/Faure clash
Fabien Roussel, he pretended to be disgusted. “We are in 2023, it gives me hives, we are here talking about 2027 when we have to discuss initiatives to have victories in the social struggles of the moment, he thundered. But he still came to repeat that he was not promising anything to his partners for 2027: “Would it be enough to have a common candidate to win? No. »
Olivier Faure for his part tried to relax the atmosphere: “Fabien will line up there, the pressure (to avoid a third second round with the far right), no one imagines it”. The communist tackled him immediately: “How will I deal with it, since when have you been telling me what we’re doing at home? “And Marine Tondelier to smile:” There you have just convinced him not to” the union.
Olivier Faure then resumed: “In the tripartition of political life”, “you must not be third” as the left has been in the last two presidential elections. He therefore asked for a five-year “coalition contract”. And then “we know that the candidate has a minimum of 25%. But it is not certain that his partners left convinced by this method.