2023-08-25 18:54:47
Ségolène Royale, former minister, candidate for the 2007 presidential election, and Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insoumise, during the movement’s summer universities, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, near Valence, Friday August 25, 2023. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
The former socialist candidate for the presidential election, Ségolène Royal, announced on Friday August 25 her intention to lead a list « d’union » on the left with La France insoumise (LFI) in the next European elections, for which the Ecologists and the French Communist Party (PCF) have already designated their own top candidates.
“It is a question of launching a dynamic of union”, declared Ségolène Royal in front of the press, during the summer universities of LFI. Could she lead this list herself? “That’s the idea”she replied, adding that she had been thinking about this project for ” before summer “. “I’m going in a dynamic of convergence”with in particular LFI and the young socialists, who came out in favor of a common list in the European elections, declared Mrs Royal in particular.
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“We need a just order in Europe (…) We will show them that there is an alternative”she said again in front of the press, defending herself from everything “rewind”. “The cause we defend is bigger than us”, she asserted. LFI had not, Friday at the end of the day, officially commented on the statements of the former minister.
In front of the press, before the announcement of Ségolène Royal and without referring to the latter, the leader of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard reaffirmed the position of his movement. “We are ready for this list to be led by a head of the list from environmentalists, perhaps Marie Toussaint if that is their choice”did he declare. “We observe several acts of disunity among our partners”he also regretted, pointing, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to a “double talk” held by some allies.
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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 with their own list. The boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, said on Friday that he did not see “which would make it possible to hope for a single list”.
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“If the left is not united with 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 Manuel Bompard. This exchange was an opportunity for Ségolène Royal to be warmly applauded several times by “rebellious” activists, especially 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 in particular. During his day with the Insoumis in the Drôme, Ségolène Royal also exchanged with Jean-Luc Mélenchonwhich she supported last year in the presidential election.
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