It’s a barb deemed “sexist” that’s causing talk on the left. “Tondelier does the job for LFI, she has a green jacket but her underwear is red. » The short sentence is taken from an article by Liberation on the upcoming battle at the PS to replace (or not) Olivier Faure. Its author, who remained anonymous, is presented as a supporter of François Hollande. His metaphor, supposed to denounce the too close proximity between the head of EELV Marine Tondelier and the rebels, pushed the boss of the PS Olivier Faure to “apologize” to the person concerned.
“In the Pantheon of Sexism”
“The courageous anonymous person will be able to find his place in the Pantheon of sexism,” Olivier Faure wrote on X. “Not that in the Socialist Party, which is a party that has made feminism its fight. Dear Marine Tondelier, my apologies for these perfectly inappropriate comments which nothing excuses.” The national secretary of the Ecologists, for her part, reacted with a long message published on the same platform. “An endorsement from a former president should not say that,” she said. “I didn’t know that internal debates at the NFP would one day revolve around the supposed color of my underwear.”
Marine Tondelier recalls in passing that she is the only leader of a party that is a member of the New Popular Front. “I see some green ones and some unripe ones. But this kind of talk, in 2024, within the NFP, I didn't think it was still possible […] Beyond the dubious and sexist form (which doesn't really work), the substance of the statement makes no sense,” she said, defending her desire for a single candidacy on the left for 2027. The boss of the ecologists received on support from many left-wing deputies. No one knows if the anonymous author of the “little phrase” is one of them.
