Palestinian flag in the National Assembly, demonstrations for Gaza… The strategy of France Insoumise worries all the way to the top of the State

Denouncing the “electoral strategy” of LFI, the opponents of the party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon fear a “bordelization”.

Maximum sanction against Sébastien Delogu: the rebellious deputy received two weeks of exclusion from the National Assembly for having brandished the Palestinian flag in the hemicycle, following the Israeli strikes on Rafah. The elected official from Bouches-du-Rhône intended in particular to demand the recognition of a Palestinian state, which Emmanuel Macron accepts in principle, but not “under the influence of emotion“.

A few hours later, in the streets of Paris in particular, numerous party flags were seen during a demonstration against the Israeli army’s operation in the Gaza Strip, alongside the banners of the far-left party NPA, the Force Ouvrière union and the Palestinian Revolution organization, which floated in the middle of the crowd.

A “electoral strategy“with a view to the European election at the beginning of June, denounced by the opponents of the Insoumis, and which worries the top of the State: Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s troops want”to mess up“according to an executive advisor, who goes so far as to link this strategy to the desire to flatter”the Muslim electorate” : “It’s very dangerous“, he concludes.

Same feeling among the majority: “I say that today LFI bears a very heavy responsibility in the dissemination of hatred of Israel, which feeds hatred of Jews in France, and in the explosion of anti-Semitic hatred in France.“, denounces Caroline Yadan, Renaissance MP for Paris. “I do not see the connection between the crimes of Mr. Netanyahu and the Jews in France“, replies the rebellious Hadrien Clouet.

Within France Insoumise, some assume the responsibility of addressing a part of the population, with the idea of ​​mobilizing abstentionists, as a reserve of potential votes. But Hadrien Clouet kicks in: “We do not have an electoral effect. There are plenty of people, we don’t yet know if they will vote or not and that’s not the subject. On the other hand, people mobilize because we share a certain conception of justice. And these, we will find them in lots of struggles and that’s also what counts.“

With the episode of the Palestinian flag, “two strategies feed each other”according to a socialist: “The demonization of LFI on the one hand, and, on the other, the possibility for LFI to establish itself as the best defender of the cause“Palestinian.