For weeks, the LFI troops have been expecting to undergo a wave of criticism, as the outing of an essay excavated on their movement, entitled La Meute, investigation into the rebellious France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Flammarion), journalists Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) and Olivier Pérou (Le Monde), In bookstore Wednesday, May 7. Dedicated to the functioning of the apparatus created by the former presidential candidate, the work describes a violent, pyramid and courtier operating mode, where the purges are frequent. And where the lack of internal democracy is assumed, in the name of political objectives.
In the National Assembly this Tuesday, May 6, the leader of LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, expected the press issues. The day before, the MP for Val-de-Marne had invited her flock to the “Greater vigilance” Regarding media invitations. His troops are even asked to “refuse” The mornings in the coming days, as indicated by a message sent to an internal messaging loop, consulted by Liberty. Faced with the cameras, the faithful of Mélenchon took care of the response: “I don’t want to comment on a work that collects both gossip and lies, since many facts reported in this book are false.” Adding: “LFI absolutely does not correspond to what [dit] This book. “
The deputy has refuted several passages mentioned in the work, anecdotal mirror of the latter’s thesis, that of a political movement legitimizing violence and the mood of internal democracy on the grounds of the defense of a political project. According to Panot, Mélenchon would never have pronounced this sentence against Manuel Bompard, the movement coordinator: “You buy a brain.” Charlotte Girard, former figure of LFI, would not raise her children alone either, as the two journalists write, but “With her husband”, According to Panot. Jean-Luc Mélenchon would not be used to drinking a glass of white wine at the end of his meetings, but rather red, even a Jura. Panot conclusion: “Everything is factually false and questionable in this book.”
The group’s owner also deplores the object of the book, focused on the internal functioning of the movement. “No political idea is found in this book, none of our campaigns, none of our mobilizations.” Asked, finally, about the instructions addressed to his troops, Panot stated: “We are free to respond or not to media invitations.”
Invited this Tuesday on BFM TV, Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the French Communist Party, denounced the lack of “Democracy inside” of LFI, comparing the Mélenchonist movement to “A sect under the influence of a couple”, That of Jean-Luc Mélenchon “And his partner Sophia Chikirou”, MP for Paris.
