The mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Fol returned, Wednesday, May 11 on Sud Radio, to the legislative elections and the new recomposition on the left, criticizing his socialist colleagues who joined the NUPES.
Stéphane Le Fol did not go with dead hand, this day, at the microphone of Sud Radio. Faced with the successive defections of socialists, leaving for the union of the left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the mayor of Le Mans began with a criticism: “Either we are opportunistic, or we remain faithful to commitments, convictions, which ensures that when we defend political lines, we remain attached to them. »
Then, he named former colleagues: “When Martine Aubry says that she agrees with an agreement while saying that on the European question there are problems, what is the commitment? The European question or the agreement? Is this an opportunity where we accommodate ourselves? “Manuel Valls has, too, taken for his rank:” Manuel Valls is beyond, these are back and forth, we no longer follow him. What are his beliefs? It saddens me. »
Stéphane Le Fol said he regretted this “poor political image that they give” adding that “they are not doing democracy any good. He also criticized the result of the vote on whether the Socialists should join NUPES: “The internal democracy of this party… how many militants today? 15000, less? There was a national council set up and built with people I no longer know, a form of body with which we have an agreement which consisted in voting for 70 constituencies… Out of 500 other constituencies, there are no longer any socialists . »
“I advise François Hollande not to go there,” he said.
He spoke well of “Carole Delga [qui] asserted herself and defended courageous convictions. “The mayor of Le Mans then resumed his criticism:” This agreement serves who? To what? Save some constituencies. “Richard Ferrand was also targeted:” Richard Ferrand too, great story, he was at the time with Henri Emmanuelli, on the left of the party … Mystery all that … “
Alas, Stéphane Le Fol wondered “what remains when we do politics”, and repeated that he did not believe in this alliance or in the Mélenchon hypothesis as Prime Minister: “We are with a heading, a commitment. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is what he has always been, he has this consistency, but that will not allow the left to govern. »
For him, “the inconsistencies will begin to appear”; Macron side also for the mayor of Le Mans: “I am not with Emmanuel Macron, I defend very clear ideas […] He tactically siphoned off right-wing votes with retirement and the RSA and now we are on a trend to seduce the left. But there is no direction and consistency unlike 2017. Today, I don’t feel the challenge, what he wants and does. »
And Francois Hollande? “I advise François Hollande not to go there, I told him that it will not bring him much. His former socialist colleagues who made the leap to the far left? “I tell them: when there were elephants, there were 120,000 militants, and we were at 20, 25, 30%. Today we made 6% in the Europeans and Anne Hidalgo, who finished at 1.7%, packed up and placed herself behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon. This left is immature and incompetent. »