After the conclusion of an agreement on Sunday evening, with environmentalists, the second night of discussions did not lead to a signature with the PS and the PCF, even if all display their optimism.
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The hours pass and the marathon of discussions for the legislative elections in June continues, day and night, at the headquarters of rebellious France (LFI). Monday, May 2, after the announcement on the night of the conclusion of an agreement with the environmentalists (EELV), it was the turn of the socialists (PS) to sit for long negotiations. Entering at 10 am, they were supposed to give way to the Communists (PCF) at 2 pm; They finally stayed until evening and the PCF delegation could not take its place until around 10 p.m.
Nestled at the bottom of a Parisian dead end, LFI offices have become the epicenter of the comings and goings from the whole left. The other political forces have taken note. The Republic En Marche (LRM), Les Républicains (LR), the far right also applied all day to unlock this attempt at cohesion of a left usually confined to failures and divisions.
On the LRM side, the European argument holds the rope: “Ecologists have agreed to sell wind to voters, that of LFI, but it is a bad wind, that of a populism which draws Europe a Dishonest caricature “, moves on Twitter the European deputy and ex-minister Nathalie Loiseau. Eric Woerth, yet himself recent LR defector in the majority, regretted on Europe 1 “of the politiciliary agreements” and the fact that according to him is “ideologically no coherence” between the forces in the process of s ‘Allier. For the mayor of Meaux and former president of the UMP Jean-François Copé, “the PS is in the process of dishonoring by going to chat with the far left”.
There is hardly only Eric Zemmour who was forced to recognize him, peea, on BFM-TV: “Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the left manage to unite. Obviously, Marine Le Pen is not In this state of mind. “
a novelty: tripartite discussions
Far from worrying about it, the left parties see these invectives as a good sign, the symptom of a concern that rises in front of a camp that is organized.
At midday, Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS, and the socialist negotiators discuss, divided into three groups-one on the strategy, a second on the sharing of the constituencies, the last on the common program, a Thorny subject, from disobedience to European treaties to retirement at 60. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, sits down for a lunch with the press. Referee and orchestrator of remote negotiations, the boss of the socialists has his phone taped by hand or by ear. After seeing EELV conclude an agreement with LFI the day before, and as the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel, he calls for this union by sweeping the reluctance expressed in number by the barons of his party.
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