It is a politico-festive event as François Ruffin likes them. With a marching band, jokes, and activist actress Audrey Vernon, author of the show How to marry a billionaire. On the stage of the Bourse du travail, in Paris, Thursday, October 13, false billionaires, from Vincent Bolloré to Jeff Bezos, compete with the applause meter to win a “Picsou d’or”. “Tonight, we’re here for the invisible bottom”launches the deputy (La France insoumise, LFI) of the Somme, who intends to show, by this evening, “those above”. “This divide must never cease to be seenhe said, we must hammer it, all the time, everywhere and also with joy. »
Before the “march against high cost of living and climate inaction” on Sunday October 16, organized by the left-wing parties, and the interprofessional mobilization of the 18th, François Ruffin summarizes: “There is a step to climb on Sunday, a second step to climb on Tuesday, and things, when the mayonnaise takes hold, it can go quickly. Our job is to bring it up. » At the end of the evening, the American investment fund BlackRock won. “This is the first time that I have witnessed an honest election in this roomcomments the deputy. There was a scrupulous bailiff who insisted, as in all left-wing political organizations, that the result be transparent, clear, and true internal democracy, it worked here tonight! »
A topical joke, at a time when LFI is preparing to modify its internal coordination. Free spirit for a long time, capable of always chosen criticisms vis-à-vis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Ruffin seems, this time, to want to weigh internally and not only from the outside. With in sight, why not, a national destiny in 2027.
The deputy, elected under the Picardy standing banner! – the microparty he founded – no longer emphasizes that he is not at LFI, a gaseous structure which, moreover, has no members. And this, even if he has always sat within the group in the National Assembly. Always present, Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he wants to be replaced, and the movement he created has lost its first coordinator, the deputy for the North Adrien Quatennens. What create the conditions for a revival, even modest.
“He wants to play the game”
The MP (LFI) for Bouches-du-Rhône, Manuel Bompard, assured his party colleagues in the National Assembly that, in the future, the space for political decision-making would be located in the movement. The decision-making body will no longer be the parliamentary group as practice had imposed during the previous five-year term, he assured. For the deputy from the Somme, whom his “rebellious” comrades have long criticized for playing it too “personally”, now is the time. That of entering, not in line, but in movement.
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