It's one more hiccup in the new union of the left.
While the electoral agreement for the next legislative elections was concluded last week, the first dissonances are being heard.
Wednesday evening, the socialist party divested Jérôme Lambert, deputy of the 3rd district of Charente since 1997, according to information confirmed in
Figaro.
In question ?
His opposition to marriage for all in 2013 and to PMA for all in 2021. He notably intervened on video during a march of the “Manif pour Tous” in 2014.
“Not in my name.
Homophobia cannot sit on the benches of the NUPES ”,
had thus reacted on Twitter Sandrine Rousseau, the former finalist of the primary ecologist.
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Lambert maintains his candidacy
A decision that does not however make him change his tune: he maintains his candidacy in his territory.
“I am surprised that the PS lets itself face Sandrine Rousseau's insane attacks in this way, but they have no local echo and if I am not the union's candidate in the first round, I will be in the second round as for previous campaigns,”
he confided to
Le Figaro.
For this great-nephew of François Mitterrand,
"if the voters no longer want (him) they will tell him."
More generally, the standardization brought about by the NUPES is, according to him,
“in the process of locally arousing dissident socialist candidacies”.