Sandrine Cassini (Journalist at Le Monde)
Late Friday evening, France Insoumise communicated the list of nominations for the legislative elections. Alexis Corbière, Danielle Simonnet, Raquel Garrido, Hendrik Davi and Frédéric Mathieu do not appear in this list. In the eyes of the management, these 5 elected officials are guilty of having denounced the lack of democracy within the movement and according to Corbière, of having “wore a more unitary line”, while divisions deepened between the different left-wing groups. Raquel Garrido, Danielle Simonnet and Alexis Corbière explained that they would maintain their candidacy for the legislative elections, even without the New Popular Front label.
The First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, accuses La France insoumise of “dirty“the New Popular Front by”irresponsible decisions“and tries to”settle the scandalous eviction“.
The return of François Hollande is a new psychodrama. The former President of the Republic is a candidate for the legislative elections in the first constituency of Corrèze under the banner of the New Popular Front. On France Bleu Limousin this morning, he called for “to block and give reason to hope“.
Sandrine Cassini, journalist for the newspaper Le Monde, will look behind the scenes at what happened this weekend on the left, with denials, returns and purges.
