The national secretary of EELV deplores the “strategy of permanent conflict” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and “his camp” within LFI.
“The Nupes, which had been a source of hope for many people, has somehow become a subject of despair, that bothers me a lot”deplores the national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, Saturday October 14 on France Culture.
Since the controversial positions taken by La France Insoumise (LFI) and its leaders in reaction to the Gaza offensive on Israel, the left alliance has been on the verge of rupture. “In the first hours, in the first days of this type of terrible act, the time must be for contemplation. I admit that it is tiring, it is even shocking to be led not to comment on the situation there, but commenting on tweets from I don’t know who about I don’t know what here”, she regrets. LFI took 48 hours to clearly condemn the attack by the Palestinian group on Israeli civilians.
“I don’t even know what to tell you about Jean-Luc Mélenchon anymore. I have the impression that he and his camp are in a strategy of permanent conflict.”
Marine Tondelieron France Culture
The national secretary of the Greens takes care to specify that she “do not think” that the Insoumis leader and his followers “represent all of France insoumise”. MP François Ruffin in fact qualified Hamas as a terrorist organization, when the president of the LFI group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, refused to do so. There will be a before and after these declarations, Marine Tondelier wants to believe. “Yes, it’s a problem. Yes, it will leave traces and it will have consequences. I don’t think we should decide this urgently, but obviously it shocks a lot of people and I don’t think I’m the only”points out the municipal councilor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
“The majority of us want things to go well, whether it’s called Nupes or not”she says. “If at some point it has to be called something else… It will remain the union of the left and environmentalists, under one name or another. Perhaps at some point it will have to come to that”she imagines.