United, the Vauclusian left? Nay! The divide is even widening by the hour between the camps of Philippe Pascal and Raphaël Arnault in the 1st constituency. The first named and his supporters held a press conference of “clarification“this Wednesday morning. Which turned into a settling of scores. And it was Lucien Stanzione who drew the first one. By first self-proclaiming his candidate as representative of “Popular Front… of Vaucluse“, in opposition to Raphaël Arnault’s NFP label.”Philippe, it’s the candidacy of the field, nothing to do with the Lyon parachutescontinued the PS senator. With Cécile Helle, we thought that we could not once again mistreat the 1st as was done the last time. There, we are even more mad, a sort of Stalinist system where we decide at the highest level. It’s the leader who decides that one of his little activists lands here. It is unbearable and intolerable.“
“Even before NUPES, we had succeeded, in Avignon, in getting everyone around the table and putting aside what divides usagrees Annie Rosenblatt, Philippe Pascal’s deputy. There, we are hostage to national dissensions and Mélenchon’s settling of scores within LFI. They are destroying what it took us years to build.“Because, Philippe Pascal is convinced, it is he who is personally targeted.”When I left LFI, things didn’t go well with Manuel Bompard. Before the investitures, the LFI representatives here themselves had proposed my name to Paris. And it was after that that Raphaël Arnault’s name came up.“
