Jean-Luc Mélenchon called this Saturday, April 30 in the columns of the JDD the left-wing parties with which he has entered into negotiations for an agreement in the legislative elections to get out of “the permanent culture of defeat”, regretting that they “let themselves absorbed by their internal stakes”.
The bilateral negotiations led by LFI – dominant on the left with the 22% of Mr. Mélenchon on April 10 – with EELV, the PS, the PCF and the NPA, all below 5%, have experienced successive accelerations and blockages for 10 days. While the deadline set by the protagonists is set for tomorrow, Sunday May 1st.
“We offer them a battle to win. It’s unifying, isn’t it? They must come out of the lose”, and “assume the will to win”, exclaims Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the Journal du dimanche. The latter regrets that “for some of our partners, winning is a pipe dream. They have the permanent culture of defeat. So they let themselves be absorbed by internal issues.
The negotiation with the PS suspended
It also refers, in hollow, to the suspension of negotiations by the PS, where certain elected officials and a minority current vilify the search for an agreement with LFI, historical antagonist. “Similarly, there is a gap between what the Communist delegation tells us and what Fabien Roussel says,” says Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
However, he agrees that “it is not an agreement like any other: it is an agreement on a strategy, on a program and on a collective mode of operation. Not an electoral grub”. Nevertheless, he says he is “optimistic”: “I think we will find an agreement. We would like this fixed tomorrow (Sunday). For the moment, everything floats, everything moves. I take it casually.”
But, he “warns”. “People will not agree twice to be robbed of victory by those who refuse to build this new majority. The People’s Union gathered twice as many voters as all the other components of the left, and five times more than each of them”.
The nomination convention for the People’s Union candidates will take place on May 7.