After her clean victory in the legislative elections in the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, Clémentine Autain could be looking at the door of Matignon. She is one of the names mentioned on the left.
Re-elected as MP for the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis in the first round of the legislative elections, Clémentine Autain was quick to settle her scores with La France insoumise and its boss: “When Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke on TF1, he talked about 19 MPs re-elected in the first round for LFI. There were, if you count me, 20” she indicated on LCI this Sunday. “If I understand correctly, I am no longer part of the group” she let slip, specifying that she had been excluded from the communication channel set up “on the phones” of the party. A first spat while the union of the left managed to turn the tide in less than a week after the first round of the legislative elections against the National Rally.
“Imagine we create a new political party”
Although the New Popular Front won the legislative elections this Sunday, tensions between the different forces of the group, and in particular between the LFI dissidents and the party, are still high. “La France insoumise has a hard time accepting that not everyone is on the rope, corporatized” explained Clémentine Autain this Monday on BFMTV. This is why she indicated that she would no longer sit with LFI, but rather with the other “purged” ones, such as Danielle Simonnet or Alexis Corbière, former protégé of Jean-Luc Mlenchon. In other words, the undesirables of LFI having been elected to the National Assembly.
Furthermore, the former member of La France Insoumise believes that it is “not absolutely certain” that LFI is the most important parliamentary group on the left wing of the chamber. “Imagine that we create a new political party, things are not set in stone,” she explained on Monday. “I want to belong to a new political group that is capable of both strongly defending unity as a strategy, the program of the New Popular Front and that is done within a framework of democracy, of assumed and not corporatized pluralism,” she concluded.
Clémentine Autain Prime Minister? “I am one of the names mentioned”
If she seems to be taking the lead, what will be the fate of Clémentine Autain in the days to come, especially after the victory of the left-wing union in the legislative elections? In all likelihood, the post of Prime Minister does not scare her. More than that, she does not rule out in any case a candidacy for Matignon, she would even respond “favorably” if she were appointed by the head of state. “I am one of the names mentioned” she was keen to recall, without forgetting to mention the name of the leader of the environmentalists, Marine Tondelier.
At the same time, she assures the need for a “consensus on a candidacy so that all deputies can find their way”. She refutes the idea that the name of the future Prime Minister must be proposed by the largest parliamentary group of the left-wing coalition. However, as she already hammered home on Sunday evening after the results of the second round of the legislative elections: “we will have to seek majorities on certain subjects and do what we can”.