after the failure of negotiations with Bayrou, LFI mocks its NFP allies

Jean-Luc Mélenchon prides himself on having predicted it from the start. Since the fall of Michel Barnier's government at the beginning of December, the leader of the Insoumis had warned the rest of the NFP that nothing should be expected from negotiations with the Macronists. “It’s a joke”he mocked, while the rest of the coalition wanted to at least agree on a promise of “non-censorship”. The disappointed expressions of left-wing leaders after Thursday's meeting with the new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, reinforced this. At the exit of Matignon, socialists, communists and ecologists even indicated that they were, as it stood, ready to vote on a motion of censure. Like a return to square one.

«For now, those who are not mistaken about the diagnoses are us.”said Jean-Luc Mélenchon during a conference Thursday evening. “You had to be either very naive or very comedians to believe that this could lead to something else”he insisted. Refusing…