In an interview with La Tribune on Sunday, the leader LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon returns to current political tensions, in particular the divorce priced between his party and the PS.
Is divorce acted? For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France, it is clear: members of the Socialist Party “are no longer our allies”. Eight months after the formation of the new Popular Front, the whole fractured more and more since the rose party has decided not to vote the censorship of the Bayrou government.
“The PS refused five motions of censorship and saved Bayrou with a budget where apprentices and autoentrepreneurs are taxed rather than billionaires”, deplores the former MP for Bouches-du-Rhône in the pages of the Tribune Sunday. He believes he was “heavily deceived on one point: the socialists never intended to be partners. They just wanted to take advantage of us”, the “rebellious”.
“We require loyalty to speech given to voters”
“We cannot have the main activity of people with the main activity of shooting us in the back,” he said, adding that the rebellious must “turn the page on a toxic alliance”. Is the link between the two parties definitely broken? The politician replied that if the socialists “want to be partners, it will be in action and if they stop helping this government to survive”. And to add: “We demand loyalty to the word given to voters”, and “we do not want to be confused with their support for Bayrou and Macron”.
The Socialist Party has still filed a spontaneous censure motion, which is to be passed Wednesday, February 19 in the National Assembly. Despite the dissensions, the 73 -year -old man assures that his party will vote “any motion of censorship coming from left”. “We know our goal. Bringing the Macronie that stole the vote of the French in July and win the program of popular needs,” he recalls.
However, he says he is “drunk” of the “battle” between François Hollande and Olivier Faure, boss of the PS. The latter also announced Sunday, February 16, that a congress would be organized in June to determine who will be the next first secretary of the party. And thus “decide the political line” of the PS. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also criticizes the political plans of François Bayrou and François Hollande and the PS, whom he deems identical: “Unite the left and right centers to place himself in the second round of 2027.” In front of them, “there will be a rebellious candidacy”, he certifies. He still specifies wishing to be replaced as a candidate LFI.