The rebellious leader calls this Saturday in the “JDD” the left formations with which he has entered into negotiations for an agreement to get out of “the permanent culture of defeat”, regretting that they “let themselves be absorbed by their internal issues” .
Successive accelerations and blockages. For ten days, the left has been engaged in intense negotiations for the legislative elections, led by LFI – dominant on the left with 22% of the rebellious candidate – with EELV, the PS, the PCF and the NPA, all below 5 %. As the deadline set by the protagonists approaches, this Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks this Saturday in the JDD.
“We offer them a battle to win. It’s unifying, isn’t it? They have to come out of the lose”, and “assume the will to win”, exclaims the third man in the presidential election in this interview. He laments: “For some of our partners, winning is a pipe dream. They have the permanent culture of defeat. So they let themselves be absorbed by internal issues.”
The left-wing tribune particularly regrets “the proximity of the EELV congress and their internal mode of organization [qui] complicate the task. We go to meetings where they debate among themselves, rather than agree with us.” It also refers, in hollow, to the suspension of negotiations by the PS, where certain elected officials and a minority current vilify the search for an agreement with LFI, historical antagonist. “Similarly, there is a gap between what the Communist delegation tells us and what Fabien Roussel says”says Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The leader of the rebellious agrees that these discussions with a view to the legislative elections, in June, are not “not an agreement like any other: it’s an agreement on a strategy, on a program and on a collective mode of operation. Not an electoral grub.”
“Optimistic”
Despite these difficulties, he says “optimistic” : “I think we will find an agreement. We would like this fixed tomorrow [dimanche]. For the moment, everything floats, everything moves. I take it casually.” Nevertheless, he “warns” : “People won’t accept having their victory stolen from them twice by those who refuse to build this new majority. The People’s Union gathered twice as many voters as all the other components of the left, and five times more than each of them.
The head of LFI nevertheless guarantees to guarantee “to each the existence of a group in the National Assembly”. “What else ? Bad losers will be judged harshly., he warns. The nomination convention for the People’s Union candidates will take place on May 7.