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La insoumise warns the PS about its support for the Bayrou government

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the opposition party La insoumise, at the National Assembly in , December 4, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS

“If socialist deputies were to refuse again to censor the government of François Bayrou” when examining the draft budget, “they would definitively break with the New Popular Front [NFP] »estimated, Wednesday January 22, La France insoumise (LFI) in a press release.

“They would confirm a reversal of alliance and would no longer be able to represent the left opposition in their constituencies”add the Mélenchonists, whose first motion of censure, tabled in the wake of the Prime Minister's general policy declaration, was voted on January 16 by the PCF and Les Ecologistes, but not by the Socialist Party (PS).

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The union of the left “is essential”

On the occasion of the budget vote, scheduled for early February, in the National Assembly, “the government should use section 49.3”predicts LFI, which warns that its deputies would then table a new motion of censure. “So this will be the moment of truth”continues La France insoumise, which also intends “propose bilateral meetings to parliamentary groups” of the NFP, including the PS, “for the purpose of clarification”.

For the head of environmentalist deputies Cyrielle Chatelain, “the union [de la gauche] is essential, we must work to reinforce it, consolidate it, and not try to blow it up”. She pleaded, in front of journalists at the Assembly, for “return instances of dialogue” oh be you NFP.

“We cannot have this debate on censorship through a press release”she stressed, wishing that“we exchange together, we discuss, argument against argument, about what is in this budget, how to avoid the plan, how to oppose it. We need vitality, democratic discussions”.

The World with AFP

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