The left, from the fiasco of Anne Hidalgo to the marriage of convenience with Nupes

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In “Journeys to the End of the Left” (Stock), journalist Laurent Telo chronicles a year of settling scores and secret dealings. Extracts.

By Michel Revol

Dn the time of the splendor of the PS, we called “solferinologists” the chroniclers capable of deciphering the slightest dirty tricks of the Socialist Party, the smallest of the undercurrents, the litany of alliances, misalliances and counter-alliances. Laurent Telo, journalist at World, is a kind of “leftist”. Going beyond the party of François Mitterrand (or what is left of it), he undertook in a book published on November 2 (1) to travel a big year in the company of the leaders of the left, who will tear themselves apart with good heart before finding themselves, year after year, within the Nupes. It’s biting, removed, funny, and necessarily eventful. With a cast featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Sandrine Rousseau, Anne Hidalgo and even François Hollande, how can you be bored?

1. Travels at the end of…

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