The positions of La France insoumise on the war between Israel and Hamas go down badly within the left alliance.
The coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI) Manuel Bompard regretted “Franco-French controversies on the Nupes” Wednesday October 11 on franceinfo, while LFI is criticized, including within the left-wing Nupes alliance for its positions considered too ambiguous on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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“We are talking about an international conflict in which there are thousands of deaths. I think that deserves better than Franco-French controversies on the Nupes”, declared the LFI coordinator. If the deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône reiterated his attachment “at the Nupes building” set up by LFI, he fears that the conflict between Israel and Hamas will serve as “pretext” to the left alliance parties (PS, EELV, PCF) “to try to justify a break with Nupes or to clarify a position with Nupes.”
“A pretext to kill the Nupes”
“The same people refused the common list for the senatorial elections, the same people refused the common list for the European elections”he quipped, pointing to their ‘”ambiguity”. “If now they seek to use an international conflict to clarify this situation, I think they are making a mistake and they are wrong, he insisted. JI don’t want to make this conflict a pretext to kill the Nupes. I don’t want to argue about these issues at the moment.”
On the future of the left-wing coalition, the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel called for a debate within his party to decide on the follow-up to be given to the alliance. “This is not the first snag in our coalition, but this is more than a snag. It’s a deep disagreement”, explained the communist leader on Wednesday on France Bleu Nord. For its part, the Socialist Party appears more than divided on the question of its membership in the left-wing coalition. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, reiterated her wish to see her party leave Nupes, in an interview with Parisian. If the boss of the socialists Olivier Faure wished to have “a clear explanation” with LFI, there is no question of talking about the death of Nupes. The time has come for a precarious status quo. The alliance must “undeniably work differently”, reacted the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.