Fabien Roussel revives the war of the left

Fabian Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, will be re-elected this weekend at the head of the party. Criticized by the Insoumis, he made things clear: “Mind your own business. No one will tell the Communists with whom they should discuss and dialogue”. Four years before the presidential deadline, the war of the left is declared.

Can another path than that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon emerge? If they displayed their unity in the battle for retreats, the stranglehold of the Insoumis on the Nupes is more than ever contested. “With Mélenchon, we will never become the majority … We have to move our butts to find an alternative”judges an ecologist deputy.

Bernard Cazeneuve goes solo

Last week, reinvigorated by the victory of a socialist dissident in Ariège against the outgoing Insoumise MP, another part of the left begins to dream. “It shows that there is a gap between Macron’s liberal project and Mélenchon’s revolutionary project”, believes a close friend of Carole Delga. The president of the Occitanie region is discreetly charting her course, and the former Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has launched his own political movement, without arousing enthusiasm. “Low-cost François Hollande”tackles a former PS executive.