Historical faithful of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis contests, in an interview with the “world”, the composition of the new management of rebellious France. He considers that it must be opened to all sensitivities, in particular his.
Interview by Julie Carriat and Sandrine Cassini
For the first time in addition to twenty years of political engagement alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Alexis Corbière makes direct criticisms on the left movement and the choices of the leader of the new ecological and social popular union ( NUPS). The deputy of Seine -Saint -Denis, excluded from the new management of La France Insoumise (LFI) – in the same way as François Ruffin, Clémentine Autain, Eric Coquerel or Raquel Garrido – calls for more democratic works.
The announcement of the new management of LFI triggered a wind of anger this week. What happened?
This unsatisfactory situation is the product of a method that I myself have difficult to grasp. In any case I have a radical disagreement with the result, a consequence of a process that does not play collective, does not associate the activists enough and does not integrate the different sensitivities of our movement which are embodied in certain “personalities “, as they say. This prevents us from reaching a consensus. Some may claim it, he is not there. Many activists are offset.
I will be frank, my problem does not relate to the absence of this or that. Even if I only count friends in this direction, the first disagreement that I express is in particular that eighteen of its twenty-one members are today parliamentary, most often with comparable sociological profiles. Why not rather seek a form of “social parity”? With leaders from rural areas, working -class neighborhoods, union activists, associative and especially from popular classes. Why not have something that looks better like society, what we are and our electorate? Let’s put the business back on the book, let’s take up the discussion. And let’s avoid that our so -called “gas” movement becomes a misty movement. I appeal to appeasement, unity. I want to be the guarantor.
What will you do if you are not heard?
I will ask for an explanation. I know nothing else in politics than the discussion to go beyond moments of tension. You have to make common. There is no point in having final sentences at this stage.
Do you want to join this coordination?
If my person is a problem, I am not a candidate. What interests me, however, is that a certain political tradition is carried there. I am a republican, social, ecological, attached to the authentic emancipatory secularism that tries – it is my history side of history – to attach the fight that we lead to a political history. I hope that this current of ideas exists more clearly in this new management team, not by nostalgia but because I am convinced that it is a key to winning tomorrow and in particular in 2027.
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