France Insouchaise asks the organizers to withdraw the name of Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the vote, which will be held from 27 to 30 January. Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot had already announced that they would not take part.
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The video was intended for less than 200 volunteers from the popular primary and is now publicly brandished by his opponents. In a short sequence held via the zoom application, we see Samuel Grzybowski, one of the founders of the citizens’ initiative who wants to decide the candidates on the left to the presidential election, assert that the “purpose of the political pole [of the Popular primary] is to prevent (…) Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot (…) can have the 500 signatures “necessary to run for the presidential election.
Mathilde Imer, the other spokesperson of the movement, denounces the world the leak “of a video for internal use, exit from its context”. It considers that it is used “to discredit” the popular primary project but is suitable for “an awkwardness on the form”. “Our opponents are not Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Anne Hidalgo but Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse, Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen,” she says. “I regret this tone and this non-diplomatic way of presenting our well-known strategy,” says Samuel Grzybowski, which specifies that the extract is from the beginning of October 2021, at a time when “no candidate had answered us”.
Iron arm
Unlike the interpretation that may be made of the video, “the position of the popular primary has never been antiparti”, attempt to correct the thirties, who nevertheless assume “the balance of power” against the parties . The popular primary to use “mass, sponsorships and dynamics in polls” in their iron arms and parties have known it for a long time, according to Mathilde Imer and Samuel Grzybowski.
Tuesday, January 18 In the evening, the “Insoums” had asked the organizers of the popular primary to do not involve their candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They denounced an “insincere” approach which, according to them, “instrumentalizes the aspirations to the gathering” of the left. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon has never agreed to appear in this vote: we therefore ask that his name be removed from all the physical and numerical media” of this primary, A Written in a Bompard manual communiqué , Campaign Director of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
For the MEP of France unsuitable (LFI), “It is time for the election campaign to be rid of these unfair practices that instrumentalize the aspirations to the rally and function for weeks as a permanent harassment against the legitimacy of the candidatures of left “. In this text, Manuel Bompard also questions “on the actual political intentions of this organization”, with which the “insou” want to “clear remotely”.
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