Despite a return to school shaken by accusations of violence and harassment, the left alliance tried to return an image of unity, Tuesday, during a seminar in the National Assembly.
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How is the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nuts)? Well, very well even, to hear its officials. Tuesday, September 27, the alliance of the left wanted to convey the message from a united and combative front, hermetic to affairs concerning the deputy La France Insoumise (LFI) of the North, Adrien Quatennens and the former national secretary of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), Julien Bayou. The same day, his approximately 151 deputies had gathered for a “first intergroup seminar”, half a day of work intended “to establish links with each other”, as Mathilde Panot said.
Standing, Salle des Quatre-Colonnes in the National Assembly, the president of the LFI group was surrounded by Clémentine Autain, another figure of “rebellious”, and her main partners, including the leader of socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, who praised “a studious and constructive seminar”. The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, and the communist deputy of Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel were also present, while Cyrielle Chatelain, who shared until Monday the presidency of the EELV group with Julien Bayou, was alone in represent environmentalists.
In front of a cloud of journalists, opposition deputies have drawn what looks like a battle plan. The week of October 3, they will offer two counter-budgets: the first to the government’s finance bill, notably with a superprofit tax proposal, and the second to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) . “Our fellow citizens have the beginnings of the month that resemble ends of the month,” said Sébastien Jumel. Other fights to be waged, those of unemployment insurance and pension reform, which the executive does not exclude passing by amendment to the PLFSS.
An “unbearable” hypothesis, according to Mathilde Panot. And to summarize the state of mind of the 151 deputies of the Alliance: “Thanks to the Nuts, we still have a break in rupture,” she said. This determination contrasts with the cataclysm that has shaken LFI and EELV for ten days. The latest episode is still fresh. Less than twenty-four hours earlier, Julien Bayou declared war on one of the main figures of his party, the deputy of Paris Sandrine Rousseau, accusing her of instrumentalizing the “right fight against sexual and sexist violence in political ends “.
” values to be asserted “
Salle des Quatre-Colonnes, no question of approaching EELV’s heartbreak, or the possible replacement at the head of LFI of Adrien Quatennens, always deputy but disappeared from the scene. Sébastien Jumel has swept these subjects, who, according to him, only interest journalists: “We must be useful to the inhabitants. This implies that we do not spend our lives commenting on the news.” In turn, his Colleague Mathilde Panot assured that the cases of the two deputies had not been mentioned during the seminar. “Yes we discuss, work [on sexist and sexual violence], but we have not talked about nominative cases,” she promised.
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