Friday evening, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise (LFI), reached out to those wishing to unite with his movement with a view to an early presidential election. He proposed a “common candidacy” built around his program. “We are in favor of a joint candidacy. We said it to each other ten times, based on the program. And as we will go with the program, well, come whoever wants, they are welcome,” he declared in front of activists in Paris.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who calls for the resignation of Emmanuel Macron and hopes to provoke an early vote, also criticized the divisions within the left. He pointed to the withdrawal of the Communist Party and the fringes of the Socialist Party. “We understood that (…) the Communist Party no longer wants us, we understood that the right of the Socialist Party no longer wants us and we refuse to go along with people who insult us along the way,” he said. -he affirmed.
For “a federative offer”
The former three-time presidential candidate proposed a “federal offer” for those ready to join LFI, while warning that “the charade which consists of coming at each election to take constituencies and chip away at the program is over “.
These statements come as tensions between left-wing parties remain high. While the Barnier government risks censorship, LFI criticizes the socialists for seeking a compromise with the presidential majority, thus weakening the New Popular Front. For his part, communist leader Fabien Roussel confirmed, in October, that he would not run again “in an alliance with LFI”.
