Since his condemnation for “violence” on his wife, the movement has been tearing himself apart, between the defenders of the former lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the supporters of his exclusion.
By Mattias Corrasco
“For our movement, La France Insoumise, 2022 will have really been an incredible year.” A video in the form of a balance sheet was shared on Monday, December 26, on the Telegram loop of parliamentarians by the Paris deputy near Jean- Luc Mélenchon Sophia Chikirou. With a lot of posters with the effigy of the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), the video especially boasts the virtues of the movement – in the clip, no trace of Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido, Clementine Autain, nor of the others historical absent from the new movement of the movement.
An attempt to make you forget the setbacks of the previous weeks? Especially those of the same morning? In the columns of the world on Monday, more than a thousand LFI activists and the Nuts signaled a platform denouncing the movement’s decision to exclude only temporarily from the parliamentary group the deputy of North Adrien Quatennens, condemned for “domestic violence” on his wife. “We, members of rebellious France and the Nuts, ask for [his] exclusion,” claim these activists. They deplore in particular a measure taken “without transparency or democratic consultation”, seen as a “betrayal” of the program of the Nuts: “feminism and the fight against gender -based and sexual violence made to women”.
This time, disagreements are lying on paper and forced to be treated publicly – rare in a movement that promotes closed doors. Because since the Quatennens affair, something has changed. The first speeches on BFM-TV and in the northern voice of the former Mélenchonist lieutenant crumpled more than one activist, especially among young “rebellious”. Thursday, December 22, around twenty LFI action groups of all France declared themselves “on strike” to demand the resignation of the Northern deputy. Gabin Plantet, activist in Poitiers, where the strike started, continues it today: “We thought that we were not going to militate for a party that had in his ranks a man who had slapped his wife”, asserts the 18 -year -old history student. And to add: “To protect a movement and its ideas, you have to know how to separate people who tarnish them.”
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On the direction, we want to spare the goat and the cabbage. Aurélien Le Coq, co -host of rebellious young people, observes a “lack of homogeneity among young people” on the question and seeks to reconnect them with the executives. “We are trying to make sure that it happens as best as possible: we will organize exchanges between the parliamentary group and young people at the start of the school year.” With the hope that the meetings are more fruitful than the latest. According to several militant sources, a first press release was read to the MP for Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard, during a seminar of the organizers of action groups, before the condemnation of Adrien Quatennens, evoking the disagreements around a potential reinstatement of the Northern MP. The coordinator of France Insoumise had avoided the debate: the question was not on the agenda.
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