2023-05-09 19:46:57
The new deputy of Ariège Martine Froger, dissident socialist, finally joined the independent group LIOT at the Palais-Bourbon, according to its president, Bertrand Pancher. “Martine Froger confirmed her request to join the group yesterday. We had a group meeting discussion this morning” to validate it, declared Tuesday May 9 Mr. Pancher in front of the press.
This formalization comes more than a month after his election, and after many talks. On April 2, Martine Froger won in the second round of a partial legislative against the outgoing LFI Bénédicte Taurine, officially supported by the LFI-EELV-PS-PCF union, in what appeared to be a war of the left.
Suspended from PS, Mme Froger had promised that she would join the socialist group at the Palais-Bourbon in the event of victory if she was not obliged “to join” to the left-wing alliance Nupes. The independent group LIOT, where already sat four PS deputies in disagreement with the Nupes, including another elected representative from Ariège, reached out to him.
“She needed to clarify with her political family” the situation and “wanted to be able to sit in a group with freedom of speech, freedom of tone, which defends the territories”affirmed Laurent Panifous, second deputy of Ariège and member of LIOT, a group also composed of centrist, Corsican and overseas elected officials.
The PS group had asked Martine Froger for pledges of ” loyalty “ to be able to integrate it into its midst, and had reminded him that being a member of the group implied being a member of Nupes, an alliance formed upstream of the last legislative elections.
Mme Froger had for his part called on the socialists not to “not to be submitted to the “rebellious”” and create an alliance “more open” than Nupes. The deputy was not present Tuesday in Paris. She got injured a week ago and can’t walk for another five weeks.
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