Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot “no way” embody the left, said the Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, interviewed on Sunday June 23 on -. Saturday evening, on France 5, the leader of La France insoumise said he was “obviously” ready to enter Matignon, in the event of victory for the New Popular Front in the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “He said he did not reject but he did not exclude either, that is good, it is neither hoped for nor necessary,” decided the former socialist. “He is not someone who embodies the coherent and reasoned left that we can call on”, continued the minister. Follow our live stream.
Clémentine Autain is “one of those who can” become Prime Minister. In an interview given to The gallery and published on Sunday June 23, the MP for La France insoumise declared in any case “[faire] part of those who can occupy this position of Prime Minister”. A declaration which comes the day after a speech by the founder of the party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the program “C L’Hebdo” on France 5. Reacting to those who, within the New Popular Front, dismiss his candidacy for Matignon, the latter declared: “I don’t eliminate myself and I don’t impose myself.”
Jordan Bardella salutes a “welcome clarification”. On “This is a welcome clarification: the French now know that they face the danger of the most brutal and sectarian left”tweeted Jordan Bardella.
A feminist mobilization against the RN. Feminist associations and unions are calling for demonstrations on Sunday in several cities in France against the far right, one week before the first round of early legislative elections. “The RN, the far right, are the enemies of women’s rights”explained to France Inter Sarah Durocher, president of Family Planning. “Just imagine a society without family planning and all the grassroots associations, it would be catastrophic,” she said, expressing her fear, as well as that of feminist associations, of seeing public subsidies diminish or disappear. “We’ve been receiving a lot of threats for some time, attacks on Planning offices for example.”she added.
The RN is “a danger” for the centrist Pierre-Yves Bournazel. “Obviously, we have to block it.” Invited on Sunday June 23 by -, Horizons Secretary General Pierre-Yves Bournazel called not to give “no vote for the RN”, during the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “JI believe that the RN is a danger for the future of the country”he added. “Wherever the extreme right is in charge, it is women’s rights, the rights of LGBT people that are in decline, we are attacking fundamental freedoms”, he continued, citing Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil or Viktor Orban’s Hungary. Asked about his choice between an RN candidate and a Popular Front candidate, he assured:[préférer] largely people from the socialist or environmentalist Popular Front with whom we can work in a coalition.”
