Laura Laplaud
modified to
09:16, May 04, 2022
La France insoumise, which came third in the first round of the presidential election with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is multiplying agreements with other political families in view of the June legislative elections. After an alliance with Europe Écologie Les Verts and then the French Communist Party, will the Socialist Party also rally? Or will he prefer to side with the presidential majority?
What can prevent Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, former first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), from joining the presidential majority? Guest of Europe Morning on Wednesday, the former deputy returned to the new political alliances for the legislative elections and did not hesitate to mark his opposition. No question of going to insubordinate France (LFI) or to the Republic on the move (LREM). “When you look at the presidential program, there are many elements that do not allow you to find your way around,” he said at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
Be in a constructive and non-frontal opposition
“Both the question of pensions, the question of the conditionality of the RSA, the salary of teachers on merit,” he continued. However, part of the socialists could join the left wing of Emmanuel Macron, as was the case in 2017. The former Prime Minister Manuel Valls will also be invested as a candidate by the Republic in motion for the next legislative elections.
“I think that the wave of support for Emmanuel Macron coming from the left is drying up. But the problem for me is not to be in frontal opposition, it is to be in constructive opposition”, he said. -he supported on Europe 1. For Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, all the elements of the program of the current head of state are not to be criticized. “When he deploys his policy on Europe, I do not see why, and in the name of what, I will criticize it because it is Mr Macron”, he exclaimed.
“We have to go into the substantive debate, the reasons why we don’t agree with Mélenchon, the reasons why we don’t agree with Macron”, he concluded.