If the socialists reach an agreement with Emmanuel Macron to form a government, “the New Popular Front will continue without them,” warned this Sunday the leader of France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A clearly expressed warning. If the PS led by Olivier Faure attempts an approach without the NFP to form a government with Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Mélenchon on behalf of the party will separate from it in this alliance.
“The New Popular Front will continue without them,” the leader of France Insoumise warned this Sunday, denouncing, according to him, the “brutal method” of the PS boss Olivier Faure.
“We will not support any government other than that of the New Popular Front,” reaffirmed the rebellious tribune in an interview with the Italian and Spanish newspapers, La Reppublica and El Pais. “Faure does not decide alone,” he adds, criticizing the approach of the First Secretary of the PS, who met the Head of State on Friday to offer him “reciprocal concessions”.
the PS compared to a campsite
“We have been presented with a fait accompli,” deplores Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denouncing the “extremely brutal” and “personal” method of Olivier Faure who “wants to be Prime Minister for the left” while “his party made 1.67% in the 2022 presidential election.
The socialist leader “has an overvaluation of himself” and “he spends his time trying to please (ex-president François) Hollande or other currents in his party,” insists Insoumis, for whom the PS is “a sort of small Fourth Republic installed with its campsite in the middle of the Fifth”.
Unkind remarks which attest to a rupture between the two main forces of the left alliance. And if the socialists form a government with the Macronists – or even the right – then “the New Popular Front will continue without them”, warns the rebel in chief.
“This propaganda which constantly repeats that the left must get along with the right is dangerous. It produces governments ready to sell their souls to the devil to last,” he asserts, before claiming his intransigence: “We refuse to betray our voters for positions. We apply our program without compromise. Democracy is not consensus!”
