dissensions within the Nupes following the declarations of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

The head of the American deputies, on a visit to Taiwan: the image caused a diplomatic crisis between the United States and China, but also tensions in the French left. This week on his blog, Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke of a provocation and asserted that there is only one China, to which Taiwan therefore belongs. If his position taken was welcomed by the Chinese embassy in France, it angered certain partners of Nupes, for whom the Taiwanese have the right to dispose of themselves.

So is this the beginning of tension, which would tug at the young alliance of the left? Not at all, to listen to the Insoumis. “On 99% of the rest, we agree. It’s good to have disagreements, it’s good to have a debate. We’ll discuss it, but we stay united“, declares Louis Boyard. Dissensions had already broken out in international matters on the adhesion of Finland and Sweden to NATO. Ecologists and socialists had voted for, whereas the Insoumis were opposed to it.