The PS votes a “moratorium” on its participation in Nupes – L’Express

The national council of the PS, meeting for six hours, decided (by 54.15% of the votes) a “moratorium on its participation in the work” of Nupes, denouncing “the permanent conflictualization” of La France insoumise.

This decision follows the refusal of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his inner circle to describe Hamas as “terrorist”, after the bloody attack against Israel. “Olivier Faure breaks up the Nupes”: with a tweet in the form of an epitaph, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had formalized in the morning the end of the Nupes, denouncing a divorce “for personal reasons about me regarding Israel (and (la) Palestine”.

MP Danièle Obono again spoke on Tuesday of an “Islamist political group” which “resists an occupation” for “the liberation of Palestine”.

In his speech to the Socialists, Olivier Faure estimated Tuesday evening that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon was a unifying factor, but today he has become an obstacle”. He underlined “the need for a radical change in the way of conceiving the union”. “We did not sign for brothelization. We are here to govern and transform,” he asserted, while maintaining that he remained “a supporter of the union.”

In the morning, he affirmed on France Inter that the rebellious leader could no longer “be the one who embodies the whole of the left and ecology”, justifying the moratorium to demand “clarification”. In unison with their leader, LFI executives Manuel Bompard and Mathilde Panot denounced “a pretext” to “break with Nupes”.

“When you are, for some, the authors of the permanent mess on the left, blaming others is not responsible,” denounced the secretary general of the PS Pierre Jouvet, to AFP. For him, “de facto it is the end of a stage. We want more union and better union.”

To try to overcome the differences, the head of the environmentalist deputies Cyrielle Chatelain proposes to bring together in a “general assembly” the 151 deputies of the Nupes “as quickly as possible”. But for the former environmentalist presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, “we must suspend our relationship with the management of La France insoumise as long as there is no strong clarification on the base of values”.

The coalition has been in trouble for a long time. The hope raised in June 2022 was indeed put to the test by the domestic violence of Adrien Quatennens, the strategy at the time of the pension reform, the war in Ukraine or the urban riots. The Communist Party has already taken a step towards exit on Sunday by voting for a resolution which notes the “impasse” of the Nupes and calling for “a new type of union”.

Within the PS, Olivier Faure’s opponents lobbied, in vain, to obtain the departure of the alliance with LFI. In the name of “clarity”, the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the mayor of Rouen – internal rival of the boss of the socialists – Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol announced on Monday “the immediate suspension of all executives joint stock with LFI”. “The French want a clear position from the socialists and this clear expression is neither a moratorium nor a suspension,” declared Paris elected official Lamia El Aaraje.

But others refuse to end the union. “We will not be among those who work to make the left irreconcilable. We will not return to the isolation of the PS which causes electoral defeats,” warned Boris Vallaud in L’Express.

The moratorium aims to launch “two projects”, specifies his colleague Arthur Delaporte. One “on our way of working in the Assembly which is not satisfactory” and a second on “the fundamental disagreements that we must put on the table”.