Very outstanding reviews. The upcoming appointment of Manuel Bompard at the head of the coordination of La France insoumise pushes several figures of the movement to make their discontent known, such as Clémentine Autain or François Ruffin.
But beyond these free electrons, relatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have also said goodbye. A first for the movement.
“We are on the brink of self-proclamation. It is a scarecrow. The hardening of the movement weakens us and generates disgust in politics”, explained to BFMTV.com the deputy Raquel Garrido, dismissed from the new leadership.
A decision made without consulting
Although the position of coordinator of Insubordinate France had been vacant since the resignation of Adrien Quatennens last September, who admitted to having slapped his wife, the movement met this Saturday in Paris to reorganize its management.
Collectively run for several months, La France Insoumise was still officially in the process of finalizing the choice of the new faces to be promoted.
But in reality, it has already been decided to promote Manuel Bompard, a very close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who succeeded him in his Marseille constituency. This decision, made without prior notice to the current members of the leadership, who have many traveling companions of the former presidential candidate, was released this Friday in the press.
Something to shrink and quickly push some to calm down the critics, like Gabriel Amard.
“Maybe Manuel Bompard will play a very important role but at the moment we don’t have a coordinator. Our roadmap at the moment is to continue improving our roadmap, written democratically”, this deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône said. , also “son-in-law” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Ruffin and Autain discarded
If Gabriel Amard tries to clarify the controversy, it is because he knows that the question of internal decision-making is debated within La France insoumise. Last August, Clémentine Autain had already harshly criticized the movement’s tendency to rely on a “small core of leaders” and the “vagueness” surrounding “decision-making places”.
Suffice it to say that the method of appointing the new leadership was eagerly awaited, with some even loudly considering the consultation of activists. Saturday is the cold shower.
In addition to the effective appointment of Manuel Bompard in the coming days at the head of the movement, certain free electrons of the movement such as Clémentine Autain and François Ruffin, who both have target for 2027.
This news comes as Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been questioned in recent weeks. His support for Adrien Quatennens, decided without consulting his relatives, was difficult for him to pass, especially with Clémentine Autain.
“Almost a Purge”
“After three months of working behind closed doors, and despite the progress, I see that the withdrawal and confinement have been brutally assumed. The activists have not had a voice when they should be the main actors of the movement”, therefore knocks out the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis on Monday in the columns of Release.
“The leadership was chosen by co-optation, which favors courtiers and helps to silence criticism,” still judges the one who has her own party, Juntos. Leïla Chaibi, the leader of the rebels in the European Parliament evokes, she in The world“almost a purge”.
Corbière “strongly disagree”
François Ruffin adopts another register and evokes in LCI “his sadness for them (the rebel Ed) more than “for him”, thinking “to have something to contribute”.
If the fact of not proposing these 2 figures of the movement to be part of the coordination can be read as a warning to those who see themselves in a presidential destiny, the exclusion of very faithful issues. Raquel Garrido and Éric Coquerel are not part of the new management either, for example.
“I totally disagree” with this choice, says Alexis Corbière with BFMTV.com, who is not sitting there either.
Last Saturday, eager to smooth things over, Manuel Bompard accepted the fact that he had not consulted the activists to designate the new coordination, saying that he preferred “consensus” to internal elections to avoid “the confrontation between majorities and minorities”.
“Problems of the rich” for Bompard
Jean-Luc Mélenchon raises the tone on his blog on Sunday, calling on his followers “not to feel compelled” to “denigrate others or make life together impossible because of press secrets.” The future LFI coordinator received the message 5 out of 5, after strong criticism from his colleagues.
“That some people who wanted to be members of this operational management are not, is a problem for the rich,” the Bouches-du-Rhône deputy attacks France inter.
The hope of “new discussions”
However, many rebels hope to find a way out in the coming days, while the national coordination of the movement is not yet official.
“We have to reopen the discussions,” says Raquel Garrido who intends to “make proposals” in the coming days.
The same story for the MEP Manon Aubry, who assured on our antenna this Monday morning that she had “pressured, requested and obtained that the parliamentary intergroup can complete” the address, and thus include Clémentine Autain and François Ruffin.
A gesture enough to ease tensions? I’m not sure. They could still double in the coming days when Adrien Quatennens could be sentenced on Tuesday for domestic violence and the rebel deputies are not all in agreement on the measures to be taken.
Source: BFM TV
