LFI deputy Éric Coquerel has “the impression that Fabien Roussel is scoring goals against his camp” by wanting to “return to the Holland years”

“I have the impression that Fabien Roussel is scoring his own goals by approving what Gérald Darmanin says, which criminalizes us, and by doing the same with Bernard Cazeneuve”, launches Saturday April 8 on France Inter Éric Coquerel, deputy La France insoumise of Seine-Saint-Denis. Friday, at the opening of the PCF congress in Marseille, Fabien Roussel had reached out to Bernard Cazeneuve, former Prime Minister under the five-year term of François Hollande. statements that “do not understand” Éric Coquerel, who believes that he “we would first have to prove if they bring something electorally”. The LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis also wonders “what is the project” of the communist leader. Is it “To return to the François Hollande years, to return to a left incapable of winning at the electoral level and to transform the social situation in the country?”asks Éric Coquerel.

Éric Coquerel recognizes the need “to broaden the base of the left at the level of voters to win, to govern”but he prefers to bet on an act II of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), which “brings together trade unionists, researchers”. “That Fabien Roussel supports this kind of approach”, pleads the rebellious deputy. He assures that “La Nupes is doing very well in the National Assembly”. The Chairman of the Finance Committee at the National Assembly precisely returns to the seminar organized by the Nupes on Tuesday evening. “We have taken action on the idea of ​​meeting more often than once a month, we are going to hold plenary sessions and we are going to do a lot more joint initiatives and joint bills”, says Éric Coquerel. He is pointing out that “the idea of ​​​​reviving the Parliament of the popular union” was also put back on the table.

To demonstrate the good cohesion within the coalition of the left, Éric Coquerel insists on the need to make a common list during the next European elections, in 2024. “We do not see why we would not be able to be together in the European and intermediate elections by the presidential election”, he hammers. The deputy LFI affirms that “all the Nupes partners say that of course we have to be together in the presidential election”. He has then “good hope” to convince these partners “notably EELV” to make common cause for Europeans. Éric Coquerel believes that the Nupes “would be better together than apart”taking into account, according to him, “the current situation, the situation of conflict and the way the government is attacking [la Nupes] and democracy”.