They are 70 dissident socialist candidates across the country, almost as many as the socialists officially invested by Nupes. It is a fringe of refractory who refuse the takeover of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left.
Former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve echoed this on Monday evening during a meeting in support of the outgoing PS deputy from Paris, Lamia El Araje, who faces the rebellious Danièle Simonnet. He relentlessly attacked Jean-Luc Mélenchon by castigating his left “tumultuous, which prefers to stir up anger than to nourish hope” and “chooses the din, the excess, the confrontation of all against all”.
It must be said that the Insoumis make it good for him. Three weeks ago, when Bernard Cazeneuve slammed the door of the PS to protest against the agreement, the deputy Alexis Corbière, very close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had launched that his departure had “as much effect as the disappearance of the speaking clock“.
So far, not much. And they do not expect much more during the legislative elections. Their resistance to the leadership of the Insoumis is a way of setting a date. The president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, took the lead of this sling. She hopes to unbolt Olivier Faure from the head of the PS during the Congress scheduled for the fall… Carole Delga castigates in all tones “waiver and submission agreement” to Jean-Luc Mélenchon contracted by the direction of the PS. And she travels throughout the South West of the country to support the many dissident socialist candidates.
But beyond the internal deadlines of a quasi-group party, these new slingers hope to resuscitate a “reformist, secular and republican left“, according to the formula of Bernard Cazeneuve. The former Prime Minister even takes alterglobalist accents to repeat that”another left is possible”…
Not sure, especially since Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not want to let it be reborn. This is the meaning of its slogan “Elect me Prime Minister!” which aims first of all to strengthen its leadership on the whole left during the five-year period which is about to begin. And this is also the goal of the program of rupture that he imposed on the other left-wing parties.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is convinced that the time for radicalism has come. And he goes through the eradication of social democracy and the PS, this party to which he belonged for 33 years and which he accuses of having always underestimated him…