“Are we talking or not? Can I talk to you or not? » Invited on Saturday to the summer universities of La France insoumise (LFI), the head of the environmental list for the European elections, Marie Toussaint, had to call the “insubordinates” unless ” uproar “ during a debate during which she was booed copiously, while the member parties Nupes are divided on their strategy of alliance for the next elections.
The candidate was participating in a debate entitled “Can La Nupes overcome its differences on European issues? “, in the presence in particular of the leader LFI in the European Parliament, Manon Aubry. The exercise promised to be perilous for the MEP, who leads the list of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) in the next European elections, while the friends of Jean-Luc Mélenchon demand the union of the left for this election. .
“We have differences”reminded Marie Toussaint to the “rebellious” militants, specifying that she was not “the most opposite of [son] party to a common European list”. But “The citizens’ revolution you speak of can only be a velvet revolution. Do not confuse the age of the people with the age of anger”she insisted, drawing accusations of “compromise” in the audience.
“If anger must be expressed, it cannot found a policy without risking carrying uncontrollable torrents which lead to the worst”said the one who had also qualified “error” the invitation of the rapper Médine, accused of anti-Semitism, to the EELV summer school.
“Adding tumult to tumult, it will not allow us to be heard better”. “I invite you to consider gentleness as a political force (…) we will never become a majority without gentleness”she still asserted. “Boos, I take them with a smile because I want to respond to them with love”concluded Marie Toussaint at the end of the debate.