EShe appears dressed in white on the slab of Bobigny town hall, colorful leaflets in hand, her steps hurried. Raquel Garrido gives a thin smile in front of the journalists before setting foot on the asphalt of this large concrete city. This Tuesday, the outgoing member of La France insoumise (LFI) goes hunting for voters in the 5e constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny, Drancy, La Courneuve). Which, in this very left-wing land, is not lacking.
Except that there is a wolf. In this case, the candidate Aly Diouara. This resident of La Courneuve is the candidate invested by La France insoumise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in place of Raquel Garrido, historical companion of the leader maximoyet elected as a deputy in 2022 with 53%. Garrido is one of the “purged” deputies, like her partner Alexis Corbière, deputy in Montreuil and Bobigny. Neither he nor she obeyed the party’s instructions to withdraw. Also, they embody a strange form of dissidence, close to the ideas of the supreme master, but guilty of having too openly criticized the official line.
In Bobigny, Raquel Garrido introduces herself, goes to meet people, shakes hands, chats in a small supermarket. To each one, she whispers: “You must have followed what happened on the left… Don’t get the wrong list, I embody the New Popular Front!” Because confusion reigns for the voter, so similar are the leaflets of the two left-wing candidates: same layout, same rallying name. Only […] Read more
