“The management of La France insoumise has decided to launch a fragmentation bomb,” denounces Clémentine Autain

The decision of the leadership of La France insoumise to exclude several figures from the movement for the legislative elections is misunderstood and provokes fury in the ranks of the party. Outgoing MP Clémentine Autain expresses her “stupefaction” and her “anger”, Saturday June 15.

“The management of La France insoumise has decided to launch a cluster bomb”, denounces, Saturday June 15, on France Inter, the outgoing MP Clémentine Autain. She was reinvested by La France insoumise in the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis for the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, 2024. On the other hand, she learned with “astonishment and anger” that five rebellious outgoing deputies were dismissed. Raquel Garrido, Danielle Simonnet and Alexis Corbière were not invested.

Clémentine Autain is in “anger” because the left is coming “to achieve a historic union” with the New Popular Front and that “we are in a fight against the extreme right”. Gold, “in this historic moment, we need height and responsibility”. She criticizes the management of LFI for not being up to the challenges “by not nominating candidates who had the presumption to criticize the direction of the management, to plead for democracy internally”. These outgoing deputies “are punished, put aside for these reasons”, she accuses. A decision “inadmissible because it is a dent in the pluralism of our political family”.

The outgoing MP for Seine-Saint-Denis deplores “the image” what does the party give to the French, “in a moment when we stand before them to tell them that we can revitalize democracy”. Clémentine Autain “very angry” to have to answer “to controversies” while she would prefer to talk about the program of the New Popular Front.

“We are at a level of brutality which does not honor our political family”

Clémentine Autain, outgoing MP, reinvested by La France insoumise in the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis

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Unlike Raquel Garrido, Alexis Corbière and Danielle Simonnet, Adrien Quatennens, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and outgoing deputy for the 1st constituency of the North, was reinvested by La France insoumise, despite his conviction for domestic violence. “Like François Ruffin, I will support Amy Bah against Adrien Quatennens”announcement on France Inter, Clémentine Autain calling “to the responsibility, to the start”. Amy Bah, from the feminist collective NousToutes, decided to run against Adrien Quatennens, whom she presents as “the Achilles heel of the left”. A petition launched this Saturday morning “for the disinvestment of Adrien Quatennens” had collected nearly 9,000 signatures as of 2:30 p.m.

Clémentine Autain believes that the management of La France insoumise can still go back. “The submission of applications is tomorrow evening. It is imperative to find a solution to be united, determined to fight this battle for the French. We have no right to give them this spectacle”she says.

Also questioned about the candidacy of the former head of state François Hollande in Corrèze, Clémentine Autain confides that it is for her “A suprise”. The rebellious “ask if this is not also a surprise for the Socialist Party” without further comment, because its “the objective today is to make the New Popular Front win”. For this, it is not necessary “no controversy, as little as possible” And “to be brought together as much as possible” to give “to see an image that allows the French to trust us”.