The 75 deputies met on Monday afternoon for a back-to-school seminar with the main agenda of the inner workings of LFI.
“The organized discussion with small groups that allowed everyone to express themselves has allowed the situation to move forward and this work will continue,” said the president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, at a press conference on Tuesday.
“Getting out of a somewhat complicated situation from above”
“The meeting went very well, and obviously in the next eight days there should be a series of proposals coming out of the parliamentary group that will go beyond, I think, the somewhat complicated situation we were in,” said deputy Éric Coquerel, who himself had issued criticism.
The deputy Alexis Corbière, history of the mélenchonie, who had also expressed a “radical dissent” with the new leadership of Manuel Bompard, told LCI: “Many statements were made by a large part of the parliamentary group, which go in the direction that I and others we have led, that work must be put back into work”.
“Don’t expect anything drastic”
“We are going to work, new proposals will be made next week, (…) we need modifications, the message has passed, the criticism has been heard, the commitments have been made to find a solution,” he added.
The new coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, confirmed to AFP that the discussions will lead to changes, but he specified that “we should not expect something radical or immediate.”
Alexis Corbière, Clémentine Autain or even François Ruffin, as well as various groups of local activists, had criticized in December the opacity in decision-making and the lack of diversity of the new “coordination” of the movement, strong with 21 members.
Source: BFM TV
