On the sets of morning shows, on social networks… The tensions within the New Popular Front are no longer hidden. Paris MP Sophia Chikirou, re-elected under the banner of the NFP in the first round of early legislative elections, published a violent dig at the Socialist Party on X on Monday evening.
“Hollandism is like bedbugs: you used drastic measures to get rid of them, you believed in them for a while (sic) and you resumed a healthy life (on the left) but in a few weeks, it itches again and comes out everywhere…”, she compares.
“In the preamble to the New Popular Front project, it is said that we must stop the invectives, the cyberbullying,” recalled the socialist Boris Vallaud, this Tuesday morning on France info. “It is extremely violent. (…) These are old methods that have no place in a serious debate,” he insisted, in reaction to Sophia Chikirou’s comments.
Increasingly visible differences
The alliance formed by the left-wing parties after the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 had nevertheless established the “rejection of the brutalization of political life”. A condition demanded by Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS/Place Publique list for the European elections.
The differences are growing stronger every day within the NFP, which came out on top in the second round of the legislative elections. Although it is far from an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the left has nevertheless expressed its desire to propose a government, with the strength of its relative majority.
But it cannot agree on the profile of the potential Prime Minister. On Monday, socialists, communists and environmentalists proposed climate specialist Laurence Tubiana. But LFI immediately rejected the proposal, reiterated this Tuesday morning.
More broadly, strategic divergences are emerging more clearly between the Socialists and the Insoumis. With fewer than 200 deputies while the absolute majority stands at 289, “at some point we will have to discuss with Parliament” and “try to convince a majority”, for example argued the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, on France Inter on Tuesday. The goal is not to have “a government that would last three weeks but to have a government that governs over time to allow people to live better”, he told the Insoumis.
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