It is an outstretched hand that may make you cringe.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, probable head of the PS list in the Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes region, came out of the woods this Sunday to appeal for the union of the lefts, rebellious France included.
"I would like these elections
(Editor's note: regional)
be the laboratory of the union ”of the left for the presidential election, affirms in Le Journal du dimanche the one who is today director France of the NGO ONE.
Looking ahead to 2022, “our responsibility is to build a coalition.
(…) We must try everything to get the leader of LFI to sit around the table, so far the only declared left-wing candidate ”, she insisted, while specifying that“ the presidential election is not part of his plans ”.
And the former Minister of Education of François Hollande to drive the point home, by stigmatizing a division "suicidal," mark of a left which has gentrified.
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The criticism is all the more astonishing and the violent attack because Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has always claimed to be a moderate left.
Unlike the three rebellious ex-ministers of François Hollande, Arnaud Montebourg, Benoît Hamon or Aurélie Filippetti, supporters of a more radical policy and support of an alliance with the rebels.
In December 2017, after the defeat of her camp in the presidential and legislative elections, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, she committed, again to "bring social democracy to life".
Social democracy that the rebels, especially since 2014 and the turn, according to them, "socioliberal" of François Hollande and Manuel Valls, have never ceased to castigate by qualifying those who claim to be "sociotratres" ...
Substantive differences
Under these conditions, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem's attempt to merge with Jean-Luc Mélenchon risks quickly coming to an end.
First, because it would only come under electoral tactics with a view to the regions.
"Najat needs all the votes in the first or in any case in the second round, facing Laurent Wauquiez, the outgoing LR president of the region", distils an elected EELV.
Above all, it comes up against fundamental incompatibilities, both within the PS and among the rebels.
Supporters of a realistic line, still influential personalities of the Socialist Party, such as its former boss, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, or the former minister Stéphane Le Foll, have constantly underlined the profound differences between their line and that by Mélenchon.
For example, on growth and productivism, sovereignty or Europe.
Even Olivier Faure, yet in search, since his election at the head of the party in April 2018, of the largest possible gathering, remains cautious vis-à-vis the leader of the Insoumis.
In particular on its commitment to secularism.
“I knew him to be a fully republican, a staunch secularist, and I want to believe that deep down he remained so.
But we cannot maintain this ambiguity (…) On the contrary, there is a need for a lot of clarity on the part of political leaders, ”warns the deputy for Seine-et-Marne.
"The only essential leader of the left"
Among the rebellious, we are always ready to extend a hand, but from there to seize that of others ... "No question for us to change political line.
Update Jean-Luc Mélenchon's program, yes, no change it.
There remains a disruptive program!
»Warns a close relative of the leader of LFI.
Sixth Republic, new organization of wealth sharing, revision of European treaties.
"The gesture of Najat Vallaud Belkacem, we gladly take it into consideration," says another Insoumis deputy.
Our rejection of
Holland
was very strong four years ago because we were coming out of a five-year term which had made the voters of the left despair.
They felt like the cuckolds of history.
Today, we have to beat Marine Le Pen and Macron.
"And this elected, to add:" The conflict with the PS arises a little less than in 2017, because this party is in free fall.
Today, Jean-Luc is the only essential leader of the left.
It is natural for us to bring together personalities from all currents of the left.
Behind Jean-Luc.
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