LFI deputy Éric Coquerel believes that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the “most capable” of winning around a “disruptive program” with a view to the presidential elections of 2027.
The media outings and untimely tweets from Jean-Luc Mélenchon do not seem to move the lines at LFI. The party and its three unsuccessful presidential candidate remain united. Like LFI deputy Éric Coquerel, invited this Thursday, December 28, on franceinfo who believes that “the best candidate to present” for the presidential elections in 2027 “remains Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.
Accused of having responded with ambiguity on the question of the fight against anti-Semitism or of not having sufficiently condemned the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is still seen as the leader who can bring the left to victory and who would be “most likely to win”, according to the LFI deputy. A wish which is part of “the rise of the extreme right which can favor a left which comes together”.
The Nupes not able to reunite the nation
Even if the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) is in clinical death, some of the left-wing deputies cling to the alliance and try to find common ground. In the Assembly, we do not intend to bury already what had aroused the hope of voters on the left and allowed the arrival of 150 deputies.
After a series of tensions, the left-wing coalition bringing together the PS, LFI, the Ecologists and the PCF could come together around the rejection of the immigration law adopted by Parliament. But “the left was very divided before” and it “is not capable of uniting the nation today”, judges Éric Coquerel. Especially since Jean-Luc Mélenchon had planted one more nail in the coffin of the coalition born in May 2022 by affirming that “the point of no return [était] crossed”.
A proposal for a meeting between all the left-wing parties
The ambition of the alliance is still present among the leaders of LFI. “The left can only come together around a program of rupture, carried by Nupes,” believes Eric Coquerel. In his eyes,he “winning recipe” will be to go beyond the simple fight of the extreme right: “We know that, it gave us Hollande, Macron, it doesn’t work.”
While the Socialist Party had decided to suspend its participation in the alliance on October 18 and the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel had decreed the end of the Nupes on November 8, “a proposal to the various left-wing parties to see” was made “after the change in the immigration law”, announces Éric Coquerel, specifying that “they have not yet responded” to the invitation. “I hope that we can discuss what we can do next, particularly in the face of this law and how we rebuild hope for 2022.”