Unlike Olivier Faure, the former first secretary of the PS castigated the agreement with LFI.
“An All but Mélenchon is being built because he has not put himself in a position to be at the center of the left. This agreement will not be durable and will not hold“, estimates the former first secretary of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on radio J, the day after the Convention recording the birth on the left of the “New popular ecological and social union(Nupes) led by the rebellious France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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“When Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be confronted with a wave of Everything but Mélenchon during the legislative campaign, few socialist and environmental leaders will come to his rescue“Adds the former boss of the PS.
“The PS lost its soul for a dish of lentils»
While the rebellious leader, with his 22% in the presidential election, succeeded in uniting under a common banner the ecologists of EELV, the communists and the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis says to himself “hostile since the first day to this agreement, because the program of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is three exits: the exit of Europe, the exit of NATO and the exit of the WTO“which would transform, according to him, France into”North Korea“.
“The PS lost its soul for a dish of lentils“by agreeing to”sell off our convictions for a few constituencies», Regrets Jean-Christophe Cambadélis who foresees a defeat of Nupes in the June legislative elections. “There can be a very good first round but in the second we will come up against the reality of the balance of power in the country. There are no reserves for the second round.»
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Several historical figures, starting with François Hollande, have criticized the LFI-PS agreement in recent days. On Saturday, former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who has already returned his party card, denounced “despicable attacksof insubordinate France which isof sometimes unbearable political violence“. “We have nothing to do with this way of approaching things, this violence, this insult, always present at the corner of the lips. It’s not the humanist left“, he told France Bleu Cotentin.
Among environmentalists too, discontent is rising. In a forum in Le Monde on Saturday, three former MEPs, Jean-Paul Besset, José Bové and Daniel Cohn-Bendit accuse, in very harsh words, the leaders of the Greens of betraying the founding values of EELV. “Who gave you the right to dispose of our consciences, in the name of obscure electoral negotiations?», «are you not ashamed?“, they ask, expressing their”anger” and their “disgust» in the face of what they call a «scam” and an “nameless infamy“.
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