Rich menu, left, Saturday, December 10. Two congresses, those of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), a “representative assembly” to La France insoumise (LFI) and even a small birthday party organized by the Democratic and Social Left (GDS). Once is not custom, the congress of the Greens was not this acme of shenanigans and ad hominem attacks. Marine Tondelier was elected national secretary in an armchair, with more than 90% of the votes.
For spicy debates, you had to look elsewhere, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) first. From 9 a.m., a little over 200 NPA activists gathered in a stormy atmosphere, between accusations of Stalinism and trials for reformism. One delegate even asked for a few minutes of silence to honor the death of the Trotskyist party in its present form. At the heart of this congress, the report to LFI and a militant vote which divided the party in two with some 2,000 members.
The outgoing leadership, led by Philippe Poutou (platform B, 48% of the votes of activists), intends, in his own words, “carrying out campaigns with LFI when [elle] sees fit, without being called a “reformer””. It uses the concept of “fighting left”, defends the idea that convergences with LFI are possible. Platform C (45%), bringing together several fractions, led in particular by the postman Gaël Quirante and the railroad worker Damien Scali, aims to build“organizations independent of the bourgeoisie but also of all shades of the “institutional left”, including LFI”. Philippe Poutou believes that these two tendencies, according to him already de facto autonomous, “can no longer live together in the same organization”.
But the left wing of the party does not intend to abandon it. “ There is no reason justifying the separationreplied Saturday Damien Scali, former spokesperson for Philippe Poutou in the presidential election. Whatever our leanings or faction, we are all the NPA. » Split or dissolution, by the end of the congress on Sunday evening, departures seem inevitable. Philippe Poutou and Olivier Besancenot are already announcing a press conference to say so, on Sunday afternoon. This would be the third split since the creation of the party, fourteen years ago, on the legacy of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), after the departure of executives to the Left Front in 2012, and that of the current by Anasse Kazib, Permanent Revolution, in 2021.
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