LFI asks the organizers to remove the name of their ballot candidate. This primary intends to designate a union candidate from the left to the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP
No, it’s no. The Insoums firmly asked Tuesday, January 18, at the evening, the organizers of the popular primary school not to involve their candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They denounce an “insincere” approach which, according to them, “instrumentalizes the aspirations to the gathering” from the left.
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon has never agreed to appear in this vote: We therefore ask that his name be removed from all the physical and numerical media” of this primary, Written in a Manuel Bompard statement, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager. In Meeting in Nantes on Sunday, the ever-in the presidential candidate had rejected any candidacy of Union: “How do I do to make the Union without creating confusion? It is not union we need, It’s clarity and popular unity, “he insisted.
In his statement, Manuel Bompard denounces “the deliberately brutal character” of the popular primary “without respect for those engaged in this presidential election. Thus, the candidates will be submitted to the vote without their agreement. others will be not, without their opinion either. “
For the Insoumas, “This vote is therefore similar to a sort of poll without any basic rules for ensuring sincerity being respected”.
288 000 enrolled in Popular primary
“This is not acceptable. None of us had access to the voter file and the Control Commission put in place was dissolved by the organizers,” says Bompard. For him, “It is time for the election campaign to be rid of these unfair practices that instrumentalize the aspirations to the gathering and have been working for weeks as a permanent harassment against the legitimacy of the left candidatures”.
In this very virulent text, Manuel Bompard also questions “on the actual political intentions of this organization” with which the Insoumons want to “clear remotely”.
The “popular primary” has, it, claimed Tuesday have crossed the 288,000 mark in the vote of “investiture” which will take place from 27 to 30 January to designate the candidate it will support among seven personalities. This figure is already the largest of the primary primary, exceeding the Ecologist primary of September (122,000) and the Republican Congress in early December (nearly 140,000).
But in addition to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the Socialist Anne Hidalgo refused to participate. The former seal guard Christiane Taubira – declared presidential candidate Saturday -, the European member Pierre Larouturou and the candidates from the civil society Charlotte merchandise and Anna Agueb-Porter have said they would bend the results.