the rebellious Éric Coquerel has “good hope” that the negotiations on the left will be concluded “this weekend”

“We are hopeful that this weekend” negotiations end “by concluding with Europe Ecology-The Greens, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party and why not the NPA”, says Saturday April 30 on franceinfo Éric Coquerel, deputy La France insoumise of Seine-Saint-Denis. He maintains that the discussions between the parties of the left in view of the legislative elections in June “going well”.

Éric Coquerel admits that said “back and forth” with the Socialist Party, which suspended negotiations on Friday, but the rebellious MP assures us: this agreement “cannot be done in two meetings”. “It’s a new Socialist Party in front of us, and I think it’s not going without internal difficulties”, Explain. Éric Coquerel says he can design “that everything does not go so easily” within the socialist camp, “After years of social-liberalism, domination of [François] Holland and others”.

For the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, the union of left-wing parties does not only consist of a distribution “districts”. “It’s the fact of sharing a strategy, that of the Popular Union, a program, that of the Common Future, even if we are able to adjust it so that everyone feels good”, specifies Éric Coquerel. He sees in this agreement on the left the possibility of obtaining “a relative majority” within the National Assembly and therefore “to offer the possibility of governing the country”. “We have a historic chance to change things, to prevent Emmanuel Macron from applying his social regression program to apply ours, which is that of a social and ecological rupture”he adds.