David Desgouilles is a columnist at
Marianne
.
He has published
Dérapage
(ed. du Rocher, 2017) and
Their Lost Wars
, (ed. du Rocher, 2019).
FIGAROVOX. - Adrien Quatennens confided to being the victim of "a political coup" whose objective was "to bring him down" by pointing to the Minister of the Interior himself. What does this defense mean to you?
David DESGOUILLES. -
Adrien Quatennens defends himself as best he can in an extremely delicate media situation, to say the least.
That is why it is very difficult for me to judge him.
I hope that the eventual defamation lawsuit will tell us more about the merits or not of these accusations.
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Isn't the LFI deputy a victim of his own ideology?
For sure.
Today, the famous
"archive box"
is ruthless and Adrien Quatennens drags like a cannonball a declaration in the hemicycle where he condemned with extreme severity cases like his.
The movement to which he belongs has publicly called for the resignations of political opponents, such as Mr. Abad.
He also withdrew his investiture from one of his candidates, Taha Bouhafs, on the basis of accusations collected by a specialized internal committee, without the accused being able to defend himself.
Between those who have not forgotten this history and who want to make him pay, those who remain upright in their boots, like Madame Rousseau, and the very clumsy defense of his closest friends, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself, the poor Adrien Quatennens no longer has many people to defend him effectively in the media.
He was elected and his sentencing yesterday includes no mention of civil rights sanctions.
Why be tougher than the judge himself?
David Desgouilles
Is he right not to resign from his post of deputy?
He was elected and his sentencing yesterday includes no mention of civil rights sanctions.
Why be more severe than the judge himself who decided on the sentence with all the elements of the case, which we other commentators do not have? Adrien Quatennens could himself decide to go back to the voters, in order to re-legitimize himself by provoking the ballot by his resignation, but only he himself can take this decision.
It is true that the 6th Republic wanted by LFI includes this idea of a
“revocation referendum”
allowing a new election when a certain number of voters demand it.
There would be a lot of panache if he decided to do so.
Does insubordinate France risk imploding and with it the Nupes?
LFI's current divisions are less caused by the Quatennens affair than by Jean-Luc Mélenchon's desire to lock in the direction of the movement for the benefit of his new protege, Manuel Bompard.
As for the Nupes, it is only an electoral agreement for the legislative elections.
For a long time, for example, the PCF has freed itself from it in its public declarations.
And EELV, through the voice of its new national secretary, has just announced that the ecologist party will go under its own colors in the European elections.
The facts are that the left is extremely divided and weakened, despite the Nupes agreement.
And that has little to do with the upheavals of Adrien Quatennens' divorce.
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