The leader of rebellious France invoked the sufficient legitimacy that would be given to him, if he should become Prime Minister, the seven million votes garnered in the first round of the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP
Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not plan to be himself a deputy for the next five years. Invited on France 2 to confirm that he would not be represented in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, the outgoing deputy of the Bouches-du-Rhônes replied, Friday, May 6, that he would be “probably” not candidate.
The leader of rebellious France invoked the sufficient legitimacy that would be given to him, if he should become Prime Minister, the seven million votes garnered in the first round of the presidential election, where he won third position , far ahead of all the other candidates on the left.
a “gathering reflex”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also expressed himself on the agreements made between LFI, Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), the Socialist Party (PS) and the Communist Party (PCF). He spoke of a “gathering reflex in the face of an episode of aggravated social mistreatment: twenty hours of forced work per week for the RSA, retirement at 65, and so on” – reference to key points of the program D ‘Emmanuel Macron.
Regarding negotiations between parties whose candidates have been torn apart in the presidential campaign, “the good news is that when we started to discuss, we realized that both was not Not in accordance with the caricature we had of each other, “he said.
“We noticed, for example, that on Europe, we all agreed to say [that] there is no question, in a mandate like this and in the current context , to get out of the euro. This is not the subject, “he developed. “On the other hand, if we make a commitment to the French on a program, we apply it,” he commented, to defend the possibility of “disobeying” in Brussels.
“We have had very little time “
He also justified that significant differences remain, on the merits of their political projects, between LFI and its environmental and socialist partners. The fault, he assured, on the electoral calendar:
We had very little time. In the other European countries, they make their legislative elections, and then they are looking for a coalition … and it will take time, eight months. We are behind a presidential election, at full speed. It was necessary to settle in thirteen days what had been sources of conflict for ten years.
The Insoumise France leader also sketched what the future functioning of the new ecological and social popular union could be the future of the assembly. He repeated that each partners (LFI, EELV, PCF, PS) would have his parliamentary group (at least fifteen deputies). “We will also have an intergroup, just as we will have a common political parliament, apart from the institutional structure,” he said.