Jean-Luc Boujon (correspondent in Lyon) / Photo credit: Jean-Luc Boujon
In a few days, the left reached an agreement for the legislative elections. But among the socialists, some do not accept seeing their party ally with La France insoumise and its excesses. This is the case of Jean-Paul Bret, former mayor of Villeurbanne, who decided to run against the outgoing deputy from LFI.
At 77 years old, Jean-Paul Bret had nevertheless retired from political life for four years, after three mandates and 19 years at the head of Villeurbanne. But this agreement signed on the left, with a view to the anticipated legislative elections, which gives pride of place to La France insoumise, does not pass muster with the former socialist councilor.
“I believe that many socialist voters and those who voted for Glucksmann in the Europeans do not recognize themselves in a France Insoumise candidacy. So it is not a good candidacy to block the National Rally. Besides, the previous elections had shown it: when the LFI candidates face those of the RN, they are never in the best position,” believes Jean-Paul Bret.
“It is not possible to ally with people like those from LFI”
The former mayor therefore decided to take the plunge again. Also because the attitude, for two years, of the outgoing LFI deputy Gabriel Amard, son-in-law of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, does not please him. “We are in a clan culture of LFI. And then its behavior is that of a “Mélenchonesque” clone, an alignment with the thinking and the vociferous attitude of LFI and Mélenchon in particular,” regrets the ex-edile .
This return is acclaimed by certain left-wing voters, like Claudine. “I completely understand this return. He is right. It is not possible to ally with people like those of LFI. They do not have at all the same convictions as us, socialists. And to being put with them, no, that definitely doesn’t work!”, she complains. The dissident Jean-Paul Bret could well be the stone in the shoe of the new Popular Front in Villeurbanne.