Within the Nupes, the voices are getting louder and louder to denounce the lack of appeal for calm from the leader of the head of rebellious France after the death of Nahel.
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We no longer speak of strategic or political differences: after Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s refusal to explicitly call for calm after the death of the young Nahel, it is a gap which today separates the rebellious leader from the rest of the left. The former presidential candidate had lit the fuse the day after the fatal shot by this policeman against the young man in his car, while the suburbs are on fire. “The watchdogs order us to call for calm, we call for justice“he wrote on Twitter.
The leaders of the left are quick to show their difference: the boss of the PS Olivier Faure calls “all elected officials to participate in the return to calm“, before putting on a layer during the weekend against the leader of the Insoumis.
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Some denounce a political fault on the part of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his troops who defend his positions. “They are completely crazy“, chokes a pillar of the Communist Party, hostile to the rebellious leader. For him, the remarks made are assimilated to “a road exit“, which could drive away “sustainably the left of power“by transforming it into”scarecrow“. “Who wants to entrust the destiny of the country to these people?”
An indignation shared by the socialists. Jean-Luc Melenchonadvocates disorder” annoyed a deputy for whom the leader of LFI “weakens the whole Nupes” but above all commits, according to him, “a parsing error”. According to several left-wing elected officials, the former presidential candidate is on the wrong track in thinking that “everything that moves is red“. For them, these riots are not a social insurrection, but a complex, elusive, deep anger. They also underline the change of speech of the rebellious leader, who described in 2012 as “morons” and of “jesters“Those who broke to denounce the death of a young scooter in Amiens.
The pension reform has passed, the challenge with it, LFI may be looking for a new lease of life. At the risk of collapsing the already weakened Nupes house of cards.