Electric atmosphere at La France Insoumise.
A few months before the European elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon intends to put his party in battle order.
In other words: let all his lieutenants play the same part.
This was without counting on the dissonant voice embodied by the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain.
While the elected LFI has increased criticism in recent weeks against the confrontational strategy advocated by the former presidential candidate - particularly on the conflict between Israel and Hamas - recent comments have aroused the anger of the figure tutelary of the Insoumis, according to information from L'Obs.
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Guest of France Info on Friday February 2, Clémentine Autain once again cultivated her opposition to the former elected official from Marseille.
Faithful to her rebellious image, she mocked
“the profile of La France insoumise for a year (which) did not allow them to gather strength and (them) cost them”
politically.
All, by exhausting this desire for permanent
“clash”
and the
“lack of solemnity”
.
It was no less necessary for Jean-Luc Mélenchon to respond head-on on the Telegram loop of the Insoumis deputies.
Of which he is still part despite his lack of parliamentary mandate.
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“The sabotage of Clémentine Autain must stop!”,
he hissed.
“
Backstabbing during an election campaign is not acceptable.
Who hears saying, apart from the upper middle classes and journalists friends of war criminals, that we are going backwards,”
he continued, always in the same tone, echoing here an alleged leniency of some with the government Israeli.
Before issuing a warning against the parliamentarian: “
Leaving would be better, more honest, more humanly respectful.
So out of reach.”
Ruffin, another element of tension
Another point of tension between the two personalities: the appearance of François Ruffin, possible rival of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with a view to the 2027 presidential election, at 8 p.m. on TF1 last week.
Which has not been the subject of any official publicity.
“
Francis pushed our ideas forward on a mass scale.
However, I have not seen any communication from the group, nor from the movement... which usually do not lack responsiveness and firepower.
Can we know why?”,
the LFI MP was offended on this same Telegram loop.
Which did not fail to trigger, once again, the ire of the triple contender for the Élysée.
“
Living in the heat of an odious anti-democratic dictatorship has some disadvantages in the form of persecution.
Only the people who officially represent the movement benefit from the support of the organization,”
replied Jean-Luc Mélenchon, squeaky.
It must be said that the rebellious leader and the former feminist activist know each other very well.
But their relationship is checkered.
One episode had also marked a tipping point between the two.
In the summer of 2019, after disappointing European elections, Clémentine Autain launched her “big bang” operation, bringing together the entire political and associative left, to take leadership of her camp.
If the initiative had since fizzled, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had kept this episode in memory.
In confidences in Le
Figaro
,
dating from a few days ago, the latter mocked the initiatives taken on the left to constitute a structure other than Nupes.
“For the moment, these are ineffective discussions”,
a
“big bang, second episode”.
The reference was clear.