La France insoumise (LFI) announced, on Tuesday, October 29, that it had nominated child rights activist Lyes Louffok as a candidate for the partial legislative elections on 1d Isère constituency, where local socialists also proposed a candidate.
“Lyes Louffok will lead a decisive campaign to strengthen the ranks of the New Popular Front, the only opposition to Emmanuel Macron”declared the LFI electoral committee, while the issue of a single leftist candidacy in this constituency divides the NFP forces. According The Dauphiné liberatedLocal “rebel” activists unanimously approved Lyes Louffok’s candidacy.
The seat has been vacant since the resignation, on October 9, of the “rebel” Hugo Prevost, accused of sexist and sexual violence.
As tensions run through the left alliance, the LFI invites local NFP forces to meet on Wednesday in Grenoble to ” engage (…) the campaign for the election of Lyes Louffok »explained the “rebel” deputy Paul Vannier to Agence France-Presse.
Lucie Castets had refused to attend
The NFP candidate in Matignon, Lucie Castets, had thought for some time about running in this constituency, before giving up, “the conditions” to your candidacy “not having met”.
The “rebels” demanded that she sit within their group, according to the NFP agreement signed in June. lamenting “The intransigence demonstrated once again by La France insoumise”The local Socialists announced last week that they intended to field a candidate, Amandine Germain.
Candidate in Val-de-Marne in June, Lyes Louffok was defeated in the second round by Republican candidate Sylvain Berrios. Therefore, it is in the old constituency of Olivier Véran, a former Macronist minister who remains silent about his possible intentions to run for a new mandate, that the young man, social worker and spokesperson for placed children, will try to “impose”.
Lyes Louffok, “committed personality and not belonging to any political group”will propose a “major child welfare reform”a fight “urgent and essential”argued LFI in its press release.
