“The fight against the extreme right requires a clear program,” warns dissident Insoumise MP Danielle Simonnet

“The fight against the extreme right requires a clear program”warned Danielle Simonnet, rebellious MP for the 15th constituency of Paris, on franceinfo on Tuesday July 9, while the forces making up the New Popular Front are trying to agree on the composition of a new government.

“There is a real social emergency being expressed”insists Danielle Simonnet. “It’s not just on the rejection of the extreme right that you create momentum. You create momentum because there is a strong hope.” The Paris MP, a dissident candidate for La France Insoumise, points out “social emergency” which must be answered. According to her, this must be translated as “an increase in the minimum wage to 1,600 euros net”, “by repealing the pension reform”, “by a wage conference, by indexing wages to inflation”.

And Danielle Simonnet warns: “If you turn your back on these key elements of the program, which can only be financed by taxing the richest in capital, if you do not respond to this question of social urgency, if you do not abandon the anti-ecological projects, the people will feel that they have been betrayed and will rekindle despair.”

The Paris MP also warns of the temptations of “combinations” policies. Danielle Simonnet. “The fight against the extreme right requires clarity.”

“If a group, a force or a deputy participates in combinations that move away from the program of the New Popular Front, it will be swept away by history.”

Danielle Simonnet, dissident NFP MP

on franceinfo

Danielle Simonnet recognizes “a situation of great institutional fragility”. But she wonders what “the macronists are going to do”. “Are they going to use motions of censure with the National Rally to bring down a Popular Front government or are they going to let this Popular Front government work?” Danielle Simonnet finally assures that in the new National Assembly, “legal texts can find a majority”.