The outgoing deputy for the 1st district of the North, Adrien Quatennens, was nominated by La France insoumise, provoking opposition reactions. This new inauguration, after his 4-month suspended prison sentence, for domestic violence, in December 2022, offends several members of the party. The latter, however, does not have the New Popular Front nomination.
While processions against the extreme right will set off during the day of this Saturday, June 15 throughout France, as in Valenciennes, the unity of a New Popular Front, formed this week, is however tainted by the announcement of the investiture by La France Insoumise (LFI) of the outgoing deputy from the North Adrien Quatennens, contested after being convicted of domestic violence.
Conversely, historical figures of the party such as Danielle Simonnet, Alexis Corbière or Raquel Garrido, were not reappointed. “A purge“, denounced the first, the second accusing Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “settle accounts“.”They make me pay for the crime of lèse-Mélenchon“, protested Raquel Garrido again.
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“LFI decides to fracture our movement and weaken the gathering“, points out the outgoing rebellious MP Clémentine Autain.
François Ruffin sees it as a “stupidity“, A “sectarianism” : “You prefer a man who hits his wife, perpetrator of domestic violence, to comrades who have the impudence to have a disagreement with the great leader“, he wrote on his Twitter account.
“Extremely shocked” by this “purge“within LFI, the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier summoned the authorities of her EELV party this Saturday, June 15. She wants the New Popular Front to support, despite everything, the candidates ousted by LFI.
If Adrien Quatennens is not supported by the union of the left, who will represent the New Popular Front in the 1st constituency of the North? Amy Bah, from the feminist collective #NousToutes, announced her candidacy.
“I am a candidate to see the left strong and united in the hemicycle, the one which carries all the values of the New Popular Front“, she wrote in a press release, explaining that she had unsuccessfully asked to be invested by the movement in place of Adrien Quatennens.
“I wish to carry the ideas and the disruptive program of the New Popular Front”, A “movement that restores collective hope“, insists the candidate, 27 years old, with a degree in public law and who has already worked in politics.
With AFP.
