This was to be “the laboratory” of the strategy of France rebellious to conquer popular municipalities in 2026. But in the second round of the municipal elections early in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in Val-de-Marne, the very media Louis Boyard Failed spectacularly – 39 % of the votes – against the candidate LR Kristell Niasme.
For the philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, this defeat sanctions “the short scale to political Islam” made according to him by LFI in a commune however very favorable to the left. He also criticizes the reaction of Louis Boyard who attributed responsibility for his defeat to the “system” and to “fascization of France”. But for Raphaël Enthoven, the current dissensions between rebellious and socialists do not mean the end of their electoral alliance. “We do not stop burying the new Popular Front, but, as long as the legislative elections take place in the majority ballot, the counter-nature alliance of the rebellious hedgehog and the socialist carp will resuscitate whenever the survival of their group parliamentarian will be at stake. It is the tragedy of the socialists “. Interview.
L’Express: How do you analyze the wide defeat of Louis Boyard in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges? Did he notably pay the presence on his man’s list, Mohammed Ben Yakhlef, who had taken pro-Hamas positions on social networks?
Raphaël Enthoven: Not only. You are right to quote the sympathetic Mohammed Ben Yakhlef, support of the Salafist Imam and Anti -Semitic of Pessac, who shares visuals glorifying Hezbollah, Iran of Mollahs or Syria of Assad, which supports the Houthis of Yemen, which celebrates the massacres of October 7, which justifies the hunt for the Jews in the streets of Amsterdam, which relays press releases from Hamas, which says it is fighting “the Israelization” of France etc. But he is not the only one! On this denying list, we also found Fadwa Sadak and his keffiEhs decorated with anti-Zionist symbols, or the parliamentary assistant of Louis Boyard, Ismaël El-Hajri, who defended the CCIF and Baraka City, both dissolved for Islamist propaganda … ‘was not a list, it was a cell meeting. You have to believe that Villeneuvois voters did not want that at the head of their city. We can understand them. However, there is no surprise in Louis Boyard’s list. LFI has been courting the working -class districts for years by making the short scale to political Islam. That we are indignant at such a list, it is evidence. Let us be surprised by its composition, it is innocence.
More interesting, more astonishing, is, as often, the position (or lack of position) of the Socialist Party after the withdrawal of the list led by Daniel Henry. Thus, the deputy of Eure Philippe Brun, while recognizing that the defense of Hamas or the glorification of October 7 was “completely regrettable”, nevertheless called to vote for Louis Boyard and his fanatics, because “there is People of course his list too “.
Beyond the rude calculation, it is the mode of reasoning that must make us think: certainly, there are Islamists, but there are also good people … as if the other could compensate for the One, as if The presence of Islamists was not a sufficient reason to turn your back on this list and to make it beat, as if you could do a little trouble, but not too much, as if, in the electoral drum, the voters of left had to learn to digest Islamism for more social justice in their city. Imagine that instead of Islamists, Louis Boyard made an alliance with neo-Nazis, would the socialists called to vote for him by arguing that there are also people on his list? We do not compensate for the horror of certain candidates by the quality of some others. We do not compensate for the Islamism of some by the attachment to the Republic of their running mate. Only one Islamist on Louis Boyard’s list would have been a sufficient reason to campaign for his opponent. As Jankélévitch says, you never do enough good, but always evil once too much.
“” “La France rebellious, this simultaneously Stalinist and Islamized political movement is a abyss for the left»
More broadly, is it the failure of the LFI strategy which consists in seducing working-class neighborhoods? Villeneuve-Saint-Georges is the most disadvantaged town in Val-de-Marne…
Jean-Luc Mélenchon made this election a “national test”, and he was right. What happened to Louis Boyard (mobilizing the abstentionists against him while diverting the left of government) threatens any rebellious candidacy, now. In their narcotics elements of language, the rebellious people strive to explain, firstly, that the defeat of Louis Boyard is, in fact, a victory: “Louis Boyard made 11 points more than the list of the Gauche’u Second Tour From 2020 “they explain in chorus, while” the right is retreating by 18 %”. As Jean-Luc Mélenchon sums up: “Batted certainly, but brought back to the possible conquest of power.” And secondly that if they lost, it is because they had everyone against them (“the Minister of the Interior and his interference in the elections, the National Front, Zemmour, the Bolloré press … and of course , macronists, who faced with the citizen revolution chose the extreme right “as Antoine Léaument says). In short, not only did they not really lose, but in addition they lost because of the others. CQFD.
As often, the truth is a little different from their analyzes. The town of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges is hyperfavorable to the left. Louis Boyard had collected more than 60 % of the votes in the second round of the legislative elections in 2024, when he had two opponents in front of him. Seven months later, in a new triangular, while he is the sole candidate of the left, facing a divided right, Boyard only obtained 38.75 % of the votes. The mobilization therefore played against him. And Boyard, who said he would not need a second round to win, is distant in the vast majority of polling stations. Let us call our wishes a world where the rebellious are laminated in municipalities acquired on the left, and self-makers have in reality they won!
Louis Boyard’s list was the faithful reflection of the rebellious, community and Islamized electoral strategy. And its failure, beyond what one can think about it, provides information on the inanity of such a strategy. First, it is a fault and an error to believe that we can seduce the Muslims of France and that they will vote as a single man for the one who flatters them. But beyond the electoral mechanics, it is demagoguery itself which is beaten in a breach. It is the taste to seduce people by flatters them that is defeated. This is the approach which consists in heroïsering his own candidacy by presenting any adversity as “fascist” or “extreme right” which finally finds its limits. The disavowal of Louis Boyard is that of the whole left of rupture and a stupid and without future strategy. Insoumise France, this simultaneously Stalinist and Islamized political movement, led by a retired tribune, is an abyss for its allies, a abyss for the left, and the assurance, for it, of never returning to business.
As you point out, after his defeat, Louis Boyard attacked “fascization of France”, believing that the whole “system” has gone against him and “chose the extreme right” …
Two things are important here: lexicon and diagnosis. First, the systematic use of an excessive vocabulary has the effect of trivializing the words that are used. If it is enough to be beaten by a republican right list to denounce a “fascization” of the country, it is that the words “fascism” or “extreme right” no longer make sense. Insoumise France carries a historical responsibility in the deviation of sacred words that should only be used. Historical truth is sold over the altar of excess. “30,000 inhabitants plunged into the darkness of fascism” said Gwenn Thomas-Alves (from the USL student union) after the defeat of Boyard. So much peremptory ignorance is a sputum in the face of all those who have really known fascism or really suffered from a police state. The greatest disasters in history are systematically summoned to ennoble a Poujadist group. The infinity is put within the reach of the poodles, as Céline would say. The immense is put at the service of nothingness.
The other notable fact is that, as you would expect, Louis Boyard is not familiar with the concept of responsibility. According to the one who, before the first round, refused any fusion of the list because he was convinced to win without effort, his defeat is only the fact of others. “We had everyone against us” declares the rebellious, shamelessly amalgamating those who present themselves against him and those who, like the socialists, called to vote for him lips. In other words, in a small politician, Louis Boyard assumes no responsibility in his defeat. He has not yet understood that, in life as in politics, a candidate is not responsible for what is happening to him, but he is responsible for what he does.
“” “No one looks less like Sisyphe than Olivier Faure»
Does this election confirm a lasting break on the left? Can we talk about the end of the new Popular Front?
We do not stop burying the new Popular Front, but, as long as the legislative elections take place in the majority ballot, the counter-nature alliance of the rebellious hedgehog and the socialist carp will resuscitate each time the survival of their parliamentary group will be at stake. It is the tragedy of the socialists. It is thanks to the rebellious that they remained deputies, but it is because of the rebellious that they are not ministers. This is the reason why they move away from the rebellious between the polls before returning to the fold at the time of the elections. Emmanuel Macron had underestimated the dorsal flexibility of the socialists when he dissolved the assembly. He had not believed that people who are dealing with “traitors”, “sold” and “dirty Zionists” for six months could become docile allies. He believed that the left of government could not ally once again with the totalitarian left. It was badly knowing Olivier Faure (and Raphaël Glucksmann). Badly took him.
You had severely criticized Olivier Faure in the spring, going so far as to compare him to Céline’s Bardamu. Are you a little more indulgent today while the first secretary of the PS distances itself from Mélenchon about government’s censorship? “Politics is Sisyphe” commented the one who is a candidate for his succession …
Olivier Faure is an exact science. Faure on Mélenchon’s positions only provide the wind sense. If it moves away, it is because opinion allows it, but let’s have no illusion: it will get closer to the same speed. Whenever Olivier Faure explains that the anti -Semitism of the rebellious is not a reason not to ally with them, he looks like a mosquito who tries to give the kiss of death to a donkey.
In this regard, no one looks less like Sisyphe than Olivier Faure. Who is Sisyphe? Condemned by the gods to roll his rock to the top of a mountain before he falls on the other side, Sisyphe suffers from his fate as long as he hopes to reach the summit, but at the second where he Replaces the desire to arrive at the top with the (much more consistent) desire to push his rock as long as he can, Sisyphe is hermetic to the sentence of the gods, and that is, says Camus, that he ” You have to imagine Sisyphe happy “. Sisyphe is a figure in constancy, perseverance, obstinacy which takes the place of love in times of crisis. I admit that I have trouble seeing the relationship with Olivier Faure, a notorious contortionist, capable of changing candidate between two towers of an election, unable to defend a socialist elected representative (Pernelle Richardot) when she is defamed by Rima Hassan, and who united his old party to the first anti-Semitic in France to avoid having an rebellious competitor in the eleventh district of Seine-et-Marne.
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