“ Regrettable “, “the archetype of the politician”, “The Ghost of Doriot” [dirigeant communiste exclu du PCF en 1934 et qui a collaboré avec l’occupant nazi]… Here is a very small sample of the epithets used by the elected officials of La France Insoumise (LFI): in order, Aurélien Le Coq (MP for the North), Paul Vannier (his colleague from Val-d’Oise), Julie Garnier (regional councillor in Île-de-France) – to describe François Ruffin, MP for Somme, who had decided, between the two rounds of the legislative elections, not to sit down with representatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement. “Ruffin is not a comrade”The MP Aurélien Saintoul (Hauts-de-Seine) sums up X more soberly.
What could François Ruffin have said or done to provoke such fury? At the start of the school year, the man who was overwhelmingly re-elected on 7 July simply started an open war with the leader of the LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Political disagreements between the two men were known: the former criticised the latter for having abandoned the countryside and suburban areas in favour of the National Rally (RN), focusing on youth and working-class neighbourhoods. On the other hand, Mélenchon accused Ruffin, through the “rebels”, of silencing the racist character of the far-right vote. In the background of these disputes, a rivalry not recognised by the leadership of the left with the next presidential election in sight.
Already critical of this competitor, François Ruffin has stepped up his game and changed his semantics. In support of this offensive: a work in the form of a denunciation of the strategy considered communitarian by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, although he is careful not to use this term. Itinerary. All my France, not even half of it. (Free Links, 154 pages, 12 euros), completed on 1Ahem August and published on September 11, the MP reviews twenty-five years of political progress from the Faculty of Letters in Amiens to the last legislative elections, and distills the key accusatory words against the former socialist senator (PS).
Reviewing the 2022 legislative elections, he writes that there were ” pity ” having led a “facies campaign”distributing leaflets with the image of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to “Blacks and Arabs” from Amiens-Nord, but not to “White clothes” for which the leader of LFI acted as “lock”. “They are leading a quasi-racial campaign”sums up the imaginary interlocutor of this book written in the form of an interview.
François Ruffin sends LFI and RN back to back
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