The “proposal” by Jean-Luc Mélenchon to constitute a single group made the coalition partners jump on Monday, worried about the initiatives taken without consultation by LFI.
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In the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), there are the optimists, those who praise the “reunion” of a large family. Critics, such as the secretary general of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, who drew, as of Sunday, June 19, in the evening, an alliance which speaks only of a part of France. The realists too, who see the first tests of its solidity looming. It didn’t take long.
In its founding pact, the Nuts, which has 142 seats, had promised everyone a parliamentary group, coordinated in an intergroup. A base of discussion that had made this rapprochement between left forces possible. But since Monday, June 20 in the morning, the new deputies, especially “rebellious”, insist on being counted as “the first opposition group”, before the National Rally (RN).
group or intergroup, in the National Assembly, it is not the same thing. Under the regulations, the various powers are allocated according to the workforce of the first and not the seconds. So, within the Nuts, the question begins to be asked. Lips, first. “For the moment, we have actually left on an intergroup, with each of the components that has its own group. We will see each other with the partners of the Nutples, and that is probably to this that we are committed,” said , Monday morning, on RTL, Mathilde Panot, well left to remain president of the group La France Insoumise (LFI) in the Assembly. Group or intergroup, there is, now, a shadow of a doubt.
“four groups will be stronger than one”
A little before 3 p.m., Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes out of LFI’s headquarters. In front of the cameras waiting for him, he launches a bomb. Or, rather, a “proposal”. “The clip should build up in a single group in Parliament,” he said. “I do not propose the merger,” he said, sketching the idea that everyone has a “delegation”, as in the European Parliament. “Everyone can return to the school year, but the signal that will be sent to the country is a block, he justifies. Last night, I had the impression that it was the state of mind in particular of Julien Bayou and Olivier Faure. “
The dam shooting is immediate. One by one, the socialist, environmentalist and communist staff say “no”. “The left is plural, it is represented in its diversity in the National Assembly. It is a force in the service of the French people. Wanting to delete this diversity is a mistake, and I oppose it,” writes the first, on Twitter, the socialist Valérie Rabault, president of the socialist group under the previous legislature. PS spokesperson Pierre Jouvet adds: “There will be a socialist group.”
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