Un book as a farewell. In Itineraries? My whole France, not half of it!François Ruffin returns to the causes of his break with La France insoumise (LFI), whose propensity to only appeal to residents of working-class neighborhoods he denounces.
“We ran a racial profiling campaign. In the buildings of Amiens-Nord, when I came across a black person or an Arab, I would pull out Mélenchon’s head in big letters on the leaflets. It was almost a sure thing to succeed, his name served as a catch-all, the banner of a newfound dignity. But as soon as we came across a white person, not just in the countryside, even in the neighborhoods, it became a barrier,” writes the re-elected MP for the 1re constituency of the Somme in his latest work.
François Ruffin: “The duty of the left is to speak to the working classes in their entirety, and not halfway” pic.twitter.com/RyrIIvqy8C
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“I say it, yes, it is a concern,” confirmed to BFMTV this Wednesday, September 11, the man who now sits in the Ecologist and Social group, which included the “purged” Insoumis and opponents of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s line. “I felt ashamed when I came to do that.” “Unfortunately, I confided in my comrades who told me “but, we do the same thing,” confessed the parliamentarian. “Finding ourselves in the National Assembly, the story came from all the deputies, from two different campaigns.”
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