The dissident socialist won, on Sunday in Ariège, a partial legislative against the outgoing candidate LFI, Bénédicte Taurine.
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DIn which political group will the new deputy for Ariège Martine Froger, a socialist dissident, sit? In the PS group despite everything, or within the independent group Liot? The decision could be taken on Tuesday, according to parliamentary sources. Martine Froger won Sunday in the second round in a partial legislative election, by 60.2% of the vote over the outgoing LFI Bénédicte Taurine, officially supported by the LFI-EELV-PS-PCF union, in what appeared to be a war of the left.
READ ALSOLegislative in Ariège: a scathing setback for… Olivier Faure“The union of the left, like the Nupes intergroup in the National Assembly, loses a deputy,” lamented the Socialist Party led by Olivier Faure on Sunday evening. But Martine Froger, suspended from the PS, had promised that she would join the socialist group at the Palais Bourbon in the event of victory, if she was not obliged “to join the Nupes”. “I will never join LFI” and “if the PS does not want me, I will go elsewhere”, she had indicated.
An impending decision
The independent group Liot, where four PS deputies already disagree with the Nupes, including another elected representative from Ariège, reaches out to him. “She will be able to defend her ideas, if she wishes, alongside us. Unlike others, we will welcome it with the ambition to give it all the place it deserves, ”wrote the four socialists who joined Liot, Laurent Panifous (Ariège), David Taupiac (Gers), Jean-Louis Bricout (Aisne) and Benjamin Saint-Huile (North).
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The socialist group should decide Tuesday morning whether or not to welcome Martine Froger into its midst. “I want Martine to join the socialist group: she is a socialist, she has her place there,” pleaded on Twitter one of her figures, Valérie Rabault, herself regularly hostile to the positions taken by LFI. The PS group led by Boris Vallaud includes 31 members and relatives, the Liot group (Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories) led by Bertrand Pancher has 20. The arrival of Martine Froger would consolidate this small group and strengthen its means.
Congratulations to Martine Froger for her election as MP for Ariège!
I would like Martine to join the group @socialistsAN : she is a socialist ��, she has her place there#circo0901 #MartineFroger— Valérie Rabault ������������ (@Valerie_Rabault) April 2, 2023