2023-06-01 17:30:10
Gone are the days when Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Pablo Iglesias signed a sealing manifesto and “common movement” between La France insoumise (LFI) and Podemos, a year before the 2019 European elections. Five years later, the regional and municipal elections in Spain, disastrous for the left and in particular for Podemos, triggered a great silence within the French left. One year before the European elections in June 2024, the international allies of LFI and the Socialist Party (PS) are struggling on the continent, and right-wing alliances with the far right are gaining strength.
After the breakthrough in Spain of the far-right Vox party with just over 7% of the vote, the “rebellious” MEP Manon Aubry is worried about the progress of “reactionary forces”. With the Spanish election, the list of disappointments grows longer: in Greece, on May 21, Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, came out a big loser in the legislative electionswhile in Finland, following the legislative elections of 2nd April, the centre-left coalition lost powerfor the benefit of an alliance of the rights including the extreme right. “This is a warning to us, Judge Manon Aubry. The trend is clear: everywhere in Europe, the right is allied with the extreme right. »
At LFI, other deputies go further and believe that the Spanish Podemos movement, long brother of the “rebellious”, pays for its normalization, its participation in the government of socialist Pedro Sanchez. And to return the impression of being more in the” accompaniement “ of capitalism rather than in the development of an alternative. Paul Vannier, LFI deputy for Val-d’Oise, is one of them. “The results of the elections in Greece and Spain show the electoral impasse where the line of “normalization” leads with Cazeneuve sauce when she wins the camp of rupture “, he said on Twitter in the wake of the results. For Marianne Maximi, LFI deputy for Puy-de-Dôme, “there was a change of gear on the desire for rupture and radicalism, it pays off”.
« Rester humble »
In France, the analyzes of the “rebellious” make their socialist and communist partners smile. Spokesperson for the PS, Chloé Ridel regrets the emergence of Vox and of a European extreme right which manages to “Building a truly coherent, transnational discourse on Europe”, more than the left. But she also notes that it is less the Spanish Socialist Party than Podemos that is collapsing at the polls. On the communist side, the party’s spokesman, Ian Brossat, calls for « rester humble ». “The total left in Spain remains much higher than the total of Nupes [Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale] to the latest legislation, he points out. The two movementist parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, have collapsed, which no doubt shows the limits of parties which disappear as quickly as they appear. »
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