A crisis that the Socialist Party would probably have done well in the midst of the fight against the pension reform. After Martine Froger’s victory on Sunday against the Nupes candidate and outgoing LFI deputy Bénédicte Taurine, the socialist dissident is looking for a landing strip.
“Things are not negotiated”
This Occitanie elected official, supported by Carole Delga, president of the fiercely anti-Nupes region, asked to be received by Boris Vallaud, president of the PS group in the National Assembly.
“We are prepared to receive it but things are not negotiated,” explained Arthur Delaporte, one of the spokesmen, after a long meeting of Socialist deputies on Tuesday morning.
For her part, the elected PS Valérie Rabault, who wants Martine Froger to join them, evokes “a principle of loyalty”.
Panot “disagrees” for his presence among the socialists
Suffice it to say that his arrival is far from registered. It must be said that the new parliamentarian has already indicated that she “would never join LFI”. “If the PS does not want me, I will go elsewhere,” the Ariégoise still advanced before his election.
In the ranks of the rebels we want to avoid at all costs that Martine Froger, who defeated a rebel deputy elected in 2017 and appreciated by her group, does not join the Nupes.
“I do not agree that a deputy who has beaten a member of the intergroup sits in the socialist group,” launched Mathilde Panot, the patron of LFI elected officials in the National Assembly.
“Well, in fact, it’s not you who decides,” replied PS Senator Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, little fan of the union of the left.
“External Pressures”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, has already warned: “Now we know, from reliable electoral sources, that the ‘left’ of Delga, Cazeneuve and company is not left. It is quite expensive to pay. be out of place,” the LFI founder wrote on his blog.
Socialist deputy Valérie Rabault, for her part, judged that the decision corresponded to the “group that decides” and not to “external pressure”. Inside the national authorities, the atmosphere is hardly more serene.
Despite the opposition of Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, the number two of the movement Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol has an internal petition to break the socialist deputies.
A possible seat among the LIOT
But beyond the internal disputes, its possible integration could permanently damage the leftist alliance that has been maintained after 6 months in the National Assembly. Despite differences during the pension reform review in February, the Nupes made a united front against retirement at 64.
On the side of the LIOT group, which has four former socialists in its ranks, including its colleague from Ariège, the door is wide open.
“She will be able to defend her ideas, if she wishes, by our side. Unlike others, we will receive her with the ambition to give her all the place she deserves, ”these deputies wrote.
Source: BFM TV
