François Ruffin says he will not sit with the LFI group in the Assembly if he is re-elected

If he is re-elected on Sunday, François Ruffin will not sit in the chamber with the La France Insoumise (LFI) group. The outgoing MP for the first constituency of the Somme stated on RTL on Thursday 4 July that his “there will be no place in the La France Insoumise group”.

“My disagreements with Jean-Luc Mélenchon are known, they are profound on democracy, on noise and fury rather than quiet strength”he said. Without going so far as to create a new movement on the left, François Ruffin hoped to create in the new National Assembly “hyphens” between “the different forces of the left”. “There is a way to do something else with communist friends, ecologists, Generations and so on”continued the director of Thanks boss !.

However, he ruled out any participation in a grand coalition ranging from the communists to the LR deputies. “I will not participate in a government that would be a motley and improvised coalition”A “gloubi-boulga” below “Emmanuel Macron’s appointments”he warned. “Whoever the leaders are tomorrow”the leader of the micro-party Picardie Debout called for “do the opposite of what Emmanuel Macron has been doing for two years”that is to say “govern without brutality, taking into account different opinions” And “with a form of tenderness and with a lot of dialogue.”

In an unfavorable ballot against the RN in his constituency of the Somme, François Ruffin received the very clear support of Albane Branlant, a Macronist candidate who withdrew in his favor. Willingly presented as a potential successor to Jean-Luc Mélenchon even if he has always been a free electron within the LFI movement, he had acted on his break with the rebellious leader during the “purge” of the “rebels” who have not been reinvested despite their historical membership in the movement.