the socialist dissident withdraws and opens the way for a single LFI candidacy

The situation is gradually unraveling in Isère. A few weeks before the legislative by-election expected this winter – and caused by the resignation of outgoing rebel Hugo Prevost accused of sexual assault – the starting line is starting to take shape. This applies to the central bloc, where the former minister and former deputy of the constituency, Olivier Véran, announced that he would not run for his mandate lost last July, thus opening the way for the one who was his deputy, Camille Galliard-Minier. But this also applies to the left, where the socialist Amandine Germain has just let her people know that she is withdrawing her dissidence in favor of the Insoumis Lyès Louffok.

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At the PS, however, some felt that the local of the stage had a better chance than its Melenchonist comrade of winning in this territory. Upset, the Insoumis had also accused the socialists of not respecting the agreement of the New Popular Front, recalling that the 1st constituency of Isère had been marked LFI during the post-dissolution distribution. A mano a mano was therefore engaged, and the scenario of two left-wing candidates was not excluded.

“Without listening”

Amandine Germain finally estimated that “in the current context, the left has no chance of winning this constituency if it is not united”. The departmental advisor is no less severe with the Mélenchonist apparatus. “I regret the position of La France Insoumise to impose a candidate without listening or prior and local discussion, as well as the intransigence and methods of the LFI political apparatus, which seriously worry me for the future of the union from the left”she lamented.

The Socialist Party must still meet in national office to adopt the decision in the coming hours. But the outcome is no longer in doubt, even by the admission of certain members of management. The end of this little series which began at the beginning of October with the hypothesis of a single candidacy from Lucie Castets, summer “prime minister” of the NFP, is therefore approaching. But the Insoumis had set a non-negotiable condition: recalling that this constituency was allocated to them, they had demanded that the senior official sit in the LFI group in the event of victory. Which she had refused.