Ségolène Royal announces her intention to lead a left “union” list with LFI

2023-08-25 19:26:16

The Greens and the Communists have already designated their lead candidates for the next European elections. Not enough to stop Ségolène Royal. The former Socialist presidential candidate announced on Friday her intention to lead a left-wing “union” list with LFI for this European election.

“It is a question of launching a dynamic of union”, declared Ségolène Royal in front of the press, on the sidelines of the summer universities of La France Insoumise. Could she lead this list herself? “That’s the idea,” she replied. “I am going into a dynamic of convergence”, with in particular LFI and the young socialists, who have come out in favor of a common list in the European elections, declared Ségolène Royal in particular.

A cause “bigger than us”

“We need a just order in Europe (…) We will show them that there is an alternative”, she said again to the press, defending herself from any “backtracking”. “The cause we are defending is bigger than us,” she said.

Except that after the ecologists and the communists, who have already designated their respective heads of lists for the European elections in June, the socialists are in turn preparing to leave alone. PS boss Olivier Faure thus indicated on Friday that he did not see “what would allow us to hope for a single list”. “If the left is not united in the next European (…) it will disappear, it will have been so disappointed in its division”, had estimated a little earlier the former socialist minister, during a debate with the leader of LFI, Manual Bompard.

“Anger needs to be expressed”

This exchange with Manuel Bompard was an opportunity for Ségolène Royal to be warmly applauded several times by rebellious activists, in particular when she welcomed the opposition of Nupes to the pension reform at the start of the year. “Anger needs to be expressed, to make noise,” she said.

During her day with the Insoumis in the Drôme, Ségolène Royal also exchanged with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom she had supported last year during the presidential election.