The New Popular Front continues to be in trouble. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is in fact particularly angry against the socialist, environmentalist and communist representatives who negotiated Wednesday evening with the government around the budget.
“This way of negotiating behind the back of the NFP and against its program is a total disrespect for our alliance,” the leader of the Insoumis wrote on X. “The traditional little left has nothing to offer and its negotiators are just ridiculously servile,” he added.
LFI awaiting general policy speech
“No agreement on non-censorship of the PS and EELV will ever concern us,” insisted the leader of LFI, while the government is looking for a way through, particularly on the left, to build a budget that does not arouse the adoption of a new motion of censure. The Insoumis have for the moment refused to begin consultations with the Minister of the Economy Eric Lombard and that of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin, preferring to wait for the general policy declaration from Prime Minister François Bayrou on January 14.
LFI members have for several days been criticizing the position of their left-wing allies who have accepted such discussions. “If you vote for the budget you are supporting the government,” argued movement coordinator Manuel Bompard on Wednesday evening.
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“I am beginning to sense the return of popular hatred of the PS at a post-Holland level. Olivier Faure was lucky to have Nupes, it allowed the PS to return to demonstrations. Be careful, I warn them, the whistles could come back faster than expected,” Manuel Bompard once again told a few journalists, on the sidelines of a meeting of MP Louis Boyard.
