“The Nupes, as it was constituted for the legislative elections under the hegemonic will of LFI, has become an impasse.” It is with these words that the Communist Party (PCF) chose to open its resolution, this Sunday, October 15, on its future in the left alliance. First secretary Fabien Roussel had in fact announced on Friday that his party was going to discuss an exit from Nupes this weekend.
The communists’ resolution “Let’s open a new page in the coming together of the left and ecologists!”, adopted by 92.8% by the party’s national council, calls for “a new type of union” on the left. The PCF denounces in particular “the insults of LFI leaders, comparing the leadership of the PCF to Nazi collaborationists”, as well as the recent refusal of certain rebellious leaders “to qualify as terrorist acts the atrocities committed by Hamas”, which ended to fracture an already weakened Nupes.
“A call to all available forces”
The PCF assures us: it is time to “build something else”. Because “Nupes is not up to par, it is discredited. We must know how to turn the page and write a new one,” indicates the management. The communists therefore call for “building a gathering which is useful, respectful of our differences and all the living forces of our society”, with as a model “the inter-union which led the movement against pension reform”.
An appeal is thus launched to “all available forces, to citizens, associations, trade unionists, socialists, ecologists and rebels, radicals and left-wing republicans.” The first secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, wishes to “meet in the coming days all the left-wing and environmentalist forces” in order to imagine this possible new union.
But not all relations with Nupes are broken. Indeed, the communist deputies are free to remain in the intergroup of the alliance at the National Assembly, this space for discussions and consultation at the Palais Bourbon, and continue to work with the Socialist Party, France Insoumise and the Ecologists. . Moreover, a large majority of the communist parliamentary group wishes to remain within this intergroup where Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not appear.
Invited this Saturday, October 14 on France Culture, the head of the Ecologists (formerly Europe Ecologie-Les Verts) Marine Tondelier delivered an equally pessimistic message on the future of the left alliance. “The Nupes, which had been a source of hope for many people, has somehow become a subject of despair, that bothers me a lot,” she regretted. Before adding: “The majority of us want it to go well, whether it’s called Nupes or not.”