the war of the left is declared

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, will be re-elected this weekend as head of the PCF. Criticized by the Insoumis, he made things clear: “Mind your own business. Nobody will tell the communists with whom they must discuss and dialogue“. Four years from the presidential deadline, the war of the left has been declared. Can another voice than that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon emerge? If they have displayed their unity in the battle for pensions, the stranglehold of the Insoumis sur la Nupes is more than ever contested.”With Mélenchon, we will never become the majority… We have to move our butts to find an alternative“, thus judges an ecologist deputy.

The president of the Occitanie region charts her course

Last week, reinvigorated by the victory of a socialist dissident in Ariège against the outgoing Insoumise MP, another part of the left begins to dream. “It shows that there is a gap between Macron’s liberal project and Mélenchon’s revolutionary project.“, estimates a close friend of Carole Delga. The president of the Occitanie region discreetly traces her route, and the ex-Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, launched his own political movement, without arousing enthusiasm.Low-cost François Hollande“, tackles a former PS executive.