Bello contest: Manuel Bompard criticizes the PS for “banning everything” and calls the LFI authorities this Sunday

2024-07-13 22:40:36

No white smoke but tensions to come for the left. The PS rejected on Saturday evening the candidacy of Huguette Bello for the position of Prime Minister and called for continued discussions with its partners in the New Front (NFP) to find a consensus name, following the meeting of its national committee, such affect. parliamentary party. The LFI’s response was swift: Movement leader Manuel Bompard criticized the Socialist Party for “blocking everything” with this denial.

LFI held its joint conference

“Therefore, the compilation of La France insoumise” on Sunday at 12 pm “to analyze the importance of the constant prohibitions of the Socialist Party against any candidate other than that of its first secretary, Olivier Faure,” wrote Manuel Bompard on X.

Publication from the representative of France Insoumise.

For two days, the joint proposal of the name of Huguette Bello as Prime Minister of the New Popular Front has found broad support and enthusiasm within the leftist opinion without raising any objections from any …

– Manuel Bompard (@mbompard) July 13, 2024

The candidate of Huguette Bello, 73, the president of the Réunion region and who was the deputy for 23 years, was proposed on Wednesday evening by the leader of the communists Fabien Roussel. Close to the communists but also to the rebels, it was quickly approved on Friday by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has supported him in the presidential elections of 2017 and 2022.

There is no consensus

The Insoumis then began to put pressure on the PS, through social networks, making sure that other stakeholders, including environmentalists, approve this claim. But “no name has reached a consensus” among the NFP partners “at this stage”, he confirmed the general secretary of the PS Pierre Jouvet in a statement to AFP on Saturday evening.

“The idea of ​​Huguette Bello was supported by the communists and the rebels but it did not succeed among either the socialists or the scientists,” also confirmed Olivier Faure, who is also a candidate for Matignon, in an interview with Le Parisien.

The leading group of marine ecologists Tondelier confirmed to AFP that “there is no decision” at home. “We need time together.”

“Nothing is insurmountable at this time”

In the afternoon, while the rebel demonstrators sprayed the entrance of the socialist center in Ivry-sur-Seine, the leader of the communists Fabien Roussel recognized the “impatience” on pressure on one or the other”, calling his colleagues to “trust” each other.

Yes, impatience is growing and we have to hurry.

But there is no point putting pressure on one or the other.

We are moving forward together. Let us trust each other and it will come.

The reason is that those who brought us to the front ate it.

– Fabien Roussel (@Fabien_Roussel) July 13, 2024

“Nothing is impossible at this time,” assured environmentalist MP Benjamin Lucas (Generations) on X, urging people not to “think” on the failure of the talks.

Those who are already speculating about the failure of the talks within the New Elite Front should not be moved too quickly. Nothing is insurmountable at this time.

We will rule. All together. We have no choice.

– Benjamin LUCAS (@Benjam1Lucas) July 13, 2024

But while French rebels called on Sunday to participate in the conference in Paris, organized by youth groups to “demand a government of the New Popular Front”, Olivier Faure countered: “When we are preparing to form a government, we must show that the era of agit-prop is over.”