For the first time in more than twenty years of political commitment alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Alexis Corbière is making direct criticism of the left-wing movement and the choices of the leader of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) heard. The deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, excluded from the new direction of La France insoumise (LFI) – in the same way as François Ruffin, Clémentine Autain, Eric Coquerel or Raquel Garrido – calls for a more democratic functioning.
The announcement of LFI’s new management triggered a wave of anger this week. What happened ?
This unsatisfactory situation is the product of a method that I myself find difficult to grasp. In any case, I have a radical disagreement with the result, the consequence of a process which does not play a collective role, does not associate activists enough and does not integrate the different sensitivities of our movement which are embodied in certain “personalities “, as they say. This prevents us from arriving at a consensus. Some may claim it, but it is not there. Many activists are confused.
I will be frank, my problem is not about the absence of such and such. Even if I only have friends in this direction, the first disagreement I express is that eighteen of its twenty-one members are now parliamentarians, most often with comparable sociological profiles. Why not rather seek a form of “social parity”? With leaders from rural areas, popular neighborhoods, union activists, associations and especially from the working classes. Why not have something that better resembles society, who we are and who we vote for? Let’s put the job back on the job, let’s resume the discussion. And let’s avoid our so-called “gaseous” movement becoming a foggy movement. I call for appeasement, for unity. I want to be the guarantor.
What will you do if you are not heard?
I will ask for an explanation. I don’t know anything else in politics than discussion to overcome moments of tension. We have to produce the common. There is no point in having definitive sentences at this point.
Would you like to join this coordination?
If my person is a problem, I am not a candidate. What interests me, on the other hand, is that a certain political tradition is brought there. I am a republican, social, ecological, attached to authentic emancipatory secularism who tries – it’s my history teacher side – to link the fight we are leading to a political history. I hope that this current of ideas exists more clearly in this new management team, not out of nostalgia but because I am convinced that it is a key to winning tomorrow and in particular in 2027.
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