In an interview at Worldthe deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis deplores “a process that does not play a collective role”.
LFI’s new management continues to cause a stir. Sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence for domestic violence, Adrien Quatennens was definitively removed from the head of the Insoumis movement. In his place, Manuel Bompard, very close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was chosen to take over. However, certain executives of La France Insoumise were immediately set aside: François Ruffin, Clémentine Autain, Éric Coquerel or even Alexis Corbière. An eviction that the latter does not appreciate, to the point of being moved by it publicly in an interview at the World where he states “of an unsatisfactory situation“.
“In any case, I have a radical disagreement with the result, the consequence of a process which does not play a collective role, does not associate activists enough and does not integrate the different sensibilities of our movement which are embodied in certain “personalities “, as the saying goes“, deplores the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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Alexis Corbière specifies that “(his) problem is not about the absence of this or that“. The elected member of Nupes says he regrets a lack of “social parity” within the management and calls for “leaders from rural areas, working-class neighborhoods, union activists, associations and especially from the working classes“. He also assures that François Ruffin and Clémentine Autain “say stimulating things“. “All of these strong temperaments, and more, need to be found in a thinking leadership team.»
A “call for appeasement”
After launchinga call for calm” and “individually“, the deputy “ask for an explanation” to “overcome moments of tension“. Asked whether he wants to be among the members of LFI’s management, Alexis Corbière replies: “If my person is a problem, I am not a candidate.“While specifying however:”I am a republican, social, ecological, attached to authentic emancipatory secularism (…) I hope that this current of ideas exists more clearly in this new management team.»
At the “obligation of absolute discretionrequired, according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to be among those of the management, Alexis Corbière answers: “The only discipline that I know in politics is the discipline of consciences, not that of armies.“And the Ile-de-France to announce that a”working group of volunteer MPs, of different persuasions“has been set up and that”proposals will be made about this new direction“.
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