A round table to listen to, failing (for the moment) to get along.
Following the appeal he had launched, environmental MEP Yannick Jadot will bring together around twenty left-wing leaders on Saturday, including Anne Hidalgo, Olivier Faure, Julien Bayou, Fabien Roussel - officially invested by the PCF this Sunday to be a candidate in 2022 - Benoît Hamon and a representative of LFI.
Objective: to iron out differences and outline a possible rapprochement with a view to the presidential election.
“We have to stop our bullshit.
Let everyone put their certainties and resentments in their pocket and take a step towards the other, ”urges someone close to Jadot.
The context is gloomy to say the least for the left which leaves divided around 2022. According to an Ifop-Fiducial poll published this Sunday in the JDD, none of the candidates approached is able to qualify for the second round, even in the configuration of 'an EELV, PS, PCF candidacy which would not exceed 10% of the votes.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon would obtain the best score, from 10 to 13.5% depending on the scenarios, far behind Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
And in the event of a second round against the president of the RN, Mélenchon like Jadot would be beaten while Anne Hidalgo would be equal to 50/50.
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"It's a terrifying poll because it means that a majority of French people prefer the extreme right to the republican left", alarmed this Sunday on France Info Benoît Hamon for whom "it would be criminal for the left not to not come together ”.
A rapprochement also defended by the mayor (EELV) of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, in the JDD, who should participate in the meeting of the left but warns against any attempt to "hold-up on the union".
Mistrust is greater on the side of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who could be represented this Saturday.
"It's a tap dance number to say
more unitary than me, you die
", he mocked this Thursday on BFMTV.
In a letter addressed to Yannick Jadot, regretting a "confused" agenda, his party proposes that the round table lead to a "non-aggression pact" and the launch of "a common call to march for freedoms ".
Postponing any substantive debates until later.
"This meeting risks turning into a fool's game"
This Sunday, the LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens opportunely recalled in a tweet that “on the left, whatever the configuration, whatever the coalitions, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is by far the best placed.
One year from the deadline, maybe it would be worth thinking about it ... "The relative of a party leader sums up the situation with a sigh:" This meeting has the merit of existing but it risks to turn into a fool's game ”.
On the Jadot side, his team calls for everyone's responsibility.
"The mistrust of the French is already strong: we would not be forgiven for giving up embodying the hope of an alternative".