Chis is a crisis that La France insoumise (LFI) would gladly have done without and which reveals the limits of the left-wing movement. Adrien Quatennens declared, on Sunday September 18, to put “withdrawn” why “function of coordinator of La France insoumise”. This decision, taken in consultation with LFI, comes four days after an article in the chained duck referring to a handrail filed by Céline Quatennens, his wife, in a context of difficult separation. In a letter published on social networks, the deputy from the North acknowledges, “for the sake of transparency and appeasement”acts of violence, in particular ” a slap “.
However, it is not so much this letter that embarrasses LFI as the reactions of some of its figures, including the most eminent: Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Immediately after the publication of his lieutenant’s letter, the leader of the “rebellious” took note of his withdrawal and gave him his support. “Police malice, media voyeurism, social networks were invited in the conflictual divorce of Adrien and Céline Quatennens. Adrien decides to take it all on himself. I salute his dignity and his courage. I tell him my confidence and my affection.he thus declared on Twitter. Faced with the scale of the reactions, a few hours later, he specified, still on the same site : “Céline and Adrien are both my friends. My affection for him does not mean that I am indifferent to Céline. She didn’t want to be quoted. But I say: a slap is unacceptable in any case. Adrian accepts it. It’s good. »
Binary thought form
It is not certain that this is enough to calm the ire of feminist activists. But above all, this sequence shows how fragile LFI remains, despite its electoral successes. In Mr. Mélenchon’s first tweet are concentrated all the “rebellious” shortcomings.
First, on the level of argument. With each crisis that the movement goes through, the reflex is to accuse the media and the power in place, if not of collusion, at least of a shared interest in bringing down LFI. We saw this recently before the trial of Mr. Mélenchon and several “rebellious” executives after the eventful searches at the headquarters of the movement, in October 2018. On this occasion, Mr. Mélenchon and his supporters advanced the theory of “lawfare” . Understand: the instrumentalization of justice by power against opponents with a justice-executive-media triangle.
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