Legislative: discussions made good progress this Friday morning between LFI, the PS and EELV
Will the left finally succeed in uniting for the legislative elections? In a four-page letter released on Friday morning, the Socialist Party (PS) announced that it subscribed to LFI’s proposals for an agreement for the legislative elections.
While the party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon has “put twelve markers in discussion with a view to reaching an agreement”, the PS specifies its position on each of them. The party led by Olivier Faure says it agrees in particular with the increase in the minimum wage to 1,400 euros net, retirement at 60, the repeal of the unemployment insurance reform, the restoration of the wealth tax, the transition to a VIe Republic, or the guarantee of access to essential common goods through public services (water, energy, etc.) On the subject of Europe, La France insoumise had announced that disobedience “with the European rules incompatible with [ses] propositions » should be part of the deal. In its press release, the PS adopts this position, while warning: “The implementation of the program that we are building will necessarily lead to tensions, to finding contradictions and not respecting certain rules. »
This press release is already causing a stir within the party. Fierce opponent of the line of La France insoumise and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the socialist president of the regional council of Occitanie, Carole Delga, quoted Pierre Mendès France this Friday morning on Twitter to criticize the announcement of the PS with a view to an agreement with LFI for the legislative elections. “Political morality prohibits strategy and convictions from diverging, even for reasons of transitory expediency. That’s what I call the truth.”, she quoted. Socialist Senator Marie-Arlette Carlotti, minister under François Hollande, said on Twitter : “The PS does not belong to anyone and no one can order us to leave. We are staying and going to rebuild it against the will of some executives. »
For its part, the environmentalist party, also disappointed by its score in the first round of the presidential election (4.63%), announced Friday morning to be close to an agreement with the “rebellious”. “The deal is in sight”announced, on France 2, Julien Bayou, the secretary general of the party, who “hope that these negotiations will succeed in the coming hours”. Mr. Bayou even wishes, if the agreement is concluded by then, that LFI and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) parade “Under the same banner – “Popular and Ecologist Union”, for example – during the demonstrations of 1is-May. It would be a signal to launch the third round of the presidential election..