Tensions had been rising since midweek and the sensational statements of François Ruffin, when the deputy of the Somme, New Popular Front, had accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon of abandoning the working classes of rural and peri-urban areas to the National Rally, forcing him to modify his speech according to the skin color of his interlocutors. The two men were this Saturday at the Fête de l’Humanité, and the divorce seems to be consummated.
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It is to boos that François Ruffin goes on stage, and the face of the deputy of the Somme closes up a little more when his NFP colleague of Vaucluse, Raphaël Arnault, with whom he is to debate, continues the hostilities.
” I tell you François, you have hurt many comrades and above all, I think that you are politically at fault at this time. “, asserts the deputy of France Insoumise.
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François Ruffin sketches a mea-culpa on the form: “ We argue in the family, it’s part of the game and even when we have to say it honestly, we make mistakes. »
But basically, he gives nothing away, the strategy of the Insoumis of only speaking to a part of the working classes is deadly, according to him: ” Do we think that we should do everything for young people and working-class neighborhoods and let the rest go? It’s a waste of time. It’s a choice that I consider suicidal. »
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At the LFI stand, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s response was not long in coming, notes our journalist. Aurelien Devernoix : ” If the neighborhoods, if the poorest had voted like the rest of the country, then by now we would have an absolute majority. »
Prepare for the future and strengthen one’s positions or try to fight on all fronts in the name of the unity of France? The dilemma is posed and it is not about to be resolved, they whisper at the New Popular Front, where this confrontation is seen above all as a duel between two presidential ambitions.
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