Union? No union? The question of the European elections never ceases to heat up the spirits on the left. While the election is scheduled in a year, in June 2024, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon who put a coin in the machine this Sunday. In an interview with 20 Minutes, the former presidential contender raised his voice. And threw a stone in the garden of his left-wing partners: "The Nupes is in danger if it is no longer even an electoral agreement." "If there is no union in the European elections, there will be no union in the municipal elections either. (...) Small party interests have limits, "had grumbled the leader of the Insoumis. A pique that did not escape the boss of the PS.
In an interview with Le Parisien on Wednesday, Olivier Faure warned that "unity is a fight" and that the left must "find a balance between the forces involved." "Neither blackmail nor injunction, but respect and fraternity," hammers the deputy of Seine-et-Marne. Although the highest authorities of the Socialist Party have not yet made their decision on the strategy to adopt for the European elections, the leaders of the Communist Party and especially of EELV have made it clear to their allies that they will defend their own colours before the electorate.
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"A coalition brings together by nature formations and personalities with cultures, different histories and sometimes divergent objectives," says Olivier Faure in his interview. Who adds: "It is the project that fixes the alliances and not the alliances that fix the project." Considering that "no one, on the left, can today claim hegemony", the first secretary of the PS thunders: "No one must be forced to pass under the toise, this supposes mutual respect." "There will never be submission to one or the other, and vice versa.
»By remaining evasive last Monday on Twitter, the elected socialist had already reacted strongly to the first arrows of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. "For too long division has served the right. Tomorrow, it could serve the far right. Nothing justifies killing hope," replied the boss of the PS. The message, which owes nothing to chance, had provoked a little more the ire of La France Insoumise which many deputies had already perceived an attack without justification. In his interview with Le Parisien, Olivier Faure recalls that "the European question had already been the subject of the most bitter discussions at the time of the Napes agreement." "This is the most difficult point between us.
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