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The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon warned this Tuesday his left-wing partners, who are meeting at the Élysée with representatives of the right and the center, against the political cost of a breakup of the New Popular Front . “If the NFP is destroyed by our partners rallying behind Macron, we know what it will cost us. We need the NFP to maintain itself”warned the founder of LFI to several media, including AFP, the day after a public meeting in front of several hundred activists in Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine).

“Who thinks they can win a single seat without us?”he warned while relations between LFI and the PS are more tense than ever since the creation of the New Popular Front last summer. “Our allies are afraid. We are the opposite, we are not afraid of being in a historic moment. Do they realize the underperformance of what they are doing? Emmanuel Macron uses them and gains points with each passing hour.estimated the former socialist senator, whose troops categorically refuse to discuss with the right and the center post-Barnier. “I’m worried. Normally they went to the meeting at the Élysée with the intention of slamming the door”he hoped, while LFI and the RN will not participate in the meeting. “Why do they need to prove to Macron that they are in good faith?”

Asked about the possibility of a joint candidacy of the left in the next presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon estimated that an alliance between La France insoumise and the Socialist Party would be impossible, but did not close the door. to an agreement with other left-wing parties, notably the Greens.