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New Popular Front: François Ruffin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are at loggerheads
On the left, things are not going well between François Ruffin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The deputy from the Somme accuses the former presidential candidate of authoritarianism and of having abandoned part of the rural electorate.
(France info)
On the left, things are not going well between François Ruffin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The deputy from the Somme accuses the former presidential candidate of authoritarianism and of having abandoned part of the rural electorate.
François Ruffin was booed when he arrived at the Fête de l’Humanité on Saturday, September 14. In the aftermath, the La France Insoumise (LFI) MP for Vaucluse, Raphaël Arnault, took him to task.I tell you François, you have hurt many comrades and I think that you are at fault politically..“
A response directed against François Ruffin and his book “Itinerary My France in its entirety, not halfway“in which he criticizes Jean-Luc Mélenchon and confirms the break with him. The Picardy MP accuses him of having abandoned a part of France to concentrate on working-class neighborhoods.”Nobody considers that there are territories that should be left aside.“, replied the coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard.
Faced with this disagreement, the other members of the New Popular Front (NFP) are trying to calm things down.Stop the fire“, launched the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel while the national secretary of Europe Ecologie les Verts, Marine Tondelier calls “not to make a spectacle of oneself.“
The activists, for their part, regret this climate which is conducive to dividing the left.