The anti-Mélenchon left met Saturday in Montpellier to try to offer an alternative to the pro-Nupes line defended by the boss of the socialists Olivier Faure. The rout is organized by the Refoundations current of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Rouen, first deputy secretary of the PS and main opponent of OlivierFaure.

"I don't think there is competition at all," Lamia El Aaraje, co-president of Refondations, told AFP.