La France insoumise: the first political council did not ease tensions, the crisis sets in

Is it a “huge crisis of growth”, as Jean-Luc Mélenchon says, or the “tumult and din” – another formula of the Insoumis leader – which has shaken insubordinate France for more than a month? In December, the appointment of Manuel Bompard at the head of LFI and the establishment of a new direction, “the coordination of spaces”, composed of relatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, provoked the ire of historical Mélenchonist executives : starting with Alexis Corbière, Clémentine Autain, François Ruffin, Éric Coquerel and Raquel Garrido… now renamed internally “the slingers”.