The end of Mélenchon’s reign on the left

The boss of the PS emphasizes that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is “not the leader of the New Popular Front”

No one will complain about the end of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s reign.

For us, after Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, the Houthis, Iran it is the turn of the LFI in France and the woks in the United States, to pay the price of their hatred, not to mention Macron imprisoned in the ‘Élysée condemned to make declarations that we listen to with chagrin.

The Mélenchon who claimed to be the Prime Minister of France in June 2024 is now the leader of a party banned because of his excesses and his anti-Semitism and no one wants to be tainted by their links with him. For him it is the beginning of the end, because the communists and the Greens have already realized that the LFI train will take them nowhere.

The storm continues to brew between LFI and PS, against a backdrop of non-vote on the censorship of the Bayrou government by the rose party. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who accuses the Socialists of “failure” after their refusal to censor the government on Thursday, “is not the leader of the New Popular Front”, underlines the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure in an interview on Saturday at The Dispatch.

Calling on the rebellious tribune to “argue rather than insult and threaten”, Olivier Faure observes that “if with each disagreement, he organizes a purge as he has already been able to do in his own party, he will end up alone”. “The NFP is not a single party, but a coalition. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not the leader,” insists the socialist, who notes that the rebels have the “freedom” to take “positions that are not ours.” “Ours is to define ourselves by ourselves,” he adds.

Censorship at the end of February?

“No one is clinging to LFI. The NFP is four autonomous forces,” he asserts. But the leader of the socialists recalls that his party can censor the government “at any time”. Words that will please Éric Coquerel, LFI president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, who spoke this Saturday morning on France Info. For the MP, the Socialist Party “distanced itself” from the New Popular Front by refusing to vote on censure on Thursday, but has “a catch-up session” with the next budget vote at the end of February/beginning of March.

It would take “between 15 and 20 socialist votes” to bring down François Bayrou, “if the entire opposition votes for the motion”, including the National Rally, calculates Éric Coquerel. Only eight socialists out of 66 voted for Thursday’s mention. “My job is between now and February to convince people to censor, if we do not want to let Emmanuel Macron continue his policy for three years,” he said, hoping to rally “enough” PS deputies, “or even the entire group » in the National Assembly.

Censorship, budget, pensions… Fried on the line at the NFP, Olivier Faure crushes Jean-Luc Mélenchon

For the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is “not the leader” of the New Popular Front and risks ending up “all alone”. Olivier Faure defends the autonomy of the PS and its choice to have established the beginnings of a compromise with François Bayrou and his government.

The refusal of the Socialist Party to censure the Bayrou government after the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration did not help relations between the PS and La France insoumise, which were already very tense.

“No one is clinging to LFI”

Olivier Faure also welcomes the fact that the two other partners of the New Popular Front, the Communists and the Ecologists, even having voted for censure, have “announced that they wished to resume discussions with the government” on the budget and have “publicly made it known that they understood our position.

“No one is clinging to LFI. The NFP is four autonomous forces,” he asserts. But the leader of the Socialists recalls that his party can censor the government “at any time”, as he announced from the podium of the Assembly this week and as the leader of the PS deputies reiterated on Friday.

Éric Coquerel wants to convince the PS to censor the budget

Asked this Saturday about Franceinfothe LFI president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, Éric Coquerel, hopes to convince the socialists to censor the Bayrou government.

But the PS has “a catch-up session” with the next budget vote at the end of February/beginning of March, he stressed, explaining that it took “between 15 and 20 votes” from socialists to bring down François Bayrou, “if the entire opposition votes for the motion”, National Rally included.

During the next legislative elections, rebellious candidates could be presented in the socialist constituencies who will not vote for the next censorship, confirmed Éric Coquerel.

But “my job is, between now and February, to convince people to censor, if we do not want to let Emmanuel Macron continue his policy for three years,” he said, hoping to rally “enough” PS deputies, “or even all of them.” group” in the National Assembly.

For Olivier Faure, “the discussion has only just begun”

Éric Coquerel believes that the Bayrou budget “is a Barnier budget but worse” and that the reopening of negotiations on pension reform setting the retirement age at 64 is “a fool’s errand”.

The conclave of social partners proposed by François Bayrou for a period of three months to re-discuss the reform just serves “to save time”, believes the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis. “It’s smoke either not to censor or not to repeal” the 2023 reform, he assures, saying he is convinced that “there will be no global agreement”.

For Olivier Faure, “the discussion is only just beginning” and “because of the parliamentary procedure, beyond the PLF and the PLFSS (finance bill and social security financing bill), it will be necessary to third text to be able to introduce new measures. It is on this set that we must judge

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