Invited on the LCI set, Friday January 17, Éric Coquerel reacted to the rejection of the motion of censure against the government of François Bayrou. The opportunity for the LFI-NFP deputy to discuss the break with the socialists.
Thursday January 16, the motion of censure filed by La France insoumise against the government of François Bayrou was rejected. Only 131 votes – compared to the 288 needed to bring down the Prime Minister and his team – were collected. Because, yes, if LFI, the ecologists and the communists mainly voted in favor of the motion of censure, this is not the case of the Socialist Party. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, and his allies preferred to give François Bayrou time to find compromises. A strategy which annoyed many political figures on the left, starting with Éric Coquerel.
“The fact that the Socialist Party does not vote for this motion is obviously problematic”regretted the president of the finance committee and LFI deputy during his appearance on LCI, Friday January 17. And to add: “Those who did not vote are in fact in a majority without participation in government.” For Éric Coquerel, the PS's choice not to vote for the motion of censure marks a rupture within the left. “At this point, the Socialist Party is no longer our partner”he added.
“Some came to the NFP out of pure opportunism”
On the LCI set, the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis went further. According to him, several political figures from the left, and more precisely from the Socialist Party, joined the New Popular Front solely to fuel their electoral ambitions. “I knew that some had come to the NFP out of pure opportunism. I am thinking of François Hollande and others, which allowed them to be elected, even if they were not convinced by the program”he explained before concluding: “But I at least thought that Olivier Faure and the majority of the PS were.”
-published on January 17 at 11:15 a.m., Tanguy Jaillant, 6Medias
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