The interview looks like a call to order. In the Sunday newspaperSaturday April 30, Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls on the left-wing parties, with whom he has started negotiations for an agreement in the legislative elections, to get out of “the permanent culture of defeat”regretting that they “let themselves be absorbed by their internal issues”. “We offer them a battle to win. It’s unifying, isn’t it? They have to get out of the lose “ et “assume the will to win”, according to him.
The bilateral negotiations carried out by La France insoumise – very dominant on the left with the 21.95% obtained by Mr. Mélenchon in the first round of the presidential election – with Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, the Socialist Party, the French Communist Party and the New Party anti-capitalist, all below 5%, have experienced successive accelerations and blockages for ten days. The protagonists have set themselves this Sunday as the deadline. The nomination convention for the People’s Union candidates will take place on May 7.
Regarding the Greens, Mr. Mélenchon judges that “The proximity of the EELV congress and their internal mode of organization complicate the task. We attend meetings where they debate among themselves, rather than agree with us”. He also says he is surprised by the reluctance of environmentalists to his proposal to “disobey” the European Union, when the decisions of Brussels would be deemed incompatible with the program of the left:
Julien Bayou [le secrétaire national d’EELV] wrote a book on European disobedience: don’t tell me he has a problem with it now. As for the ecological protectionism of Yannick Jadot, it is impossible to apply within the framework of the current treaties. Disobedience is not leaving the Union.
At the PS, “it’s the end of soft synthesis”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also evokes 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. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, his score in the first round of the presidential election “settled by putting the center of gravity on the side of the left of rupture”, he intends to embody, and not on the side of social-liberalism:
That Olivier Faure [le premier secrétaire du PS] tell the other socialists to leave if they don’t agree, it’s unheard of! This is the end of soft synthesis. By breaking with Dutchism, they make possible the rebirth of another PS. It’s a huge event.
In his eyes, the division of constituencies in the legislative elections is not the real reason for the difficulties of the negotiations. “We guarantee a parliamentary group for everyone. We have known less tender hegemonists.he points out, referring to the accusation of wanting to crush his partners made by representatives of left-wing parties who are suspicious of the negotiations in progress.
And to warn: “People will not accept twice to be robbed of victory by those who refuse to build this new majority. People’s Union [le rassemblement mélenchoniste] gathered twice as many voters as all the other components of the left, and five times more than each of them (…). Bad losers will be judged harshly. »