The New Popular Front (NFP) unit operates strongly in Isère. Amandine Germain, elected socialist in the department, announced on Wednesday, November 6, that she was withdrawing from the Grenoble legislative by-elections in favor of the “rebel” candidate Lyes Louffok. The elected socialist criticized, in passing, “intransigence” of La Francia Insumisa (LFI) to ” impose “ your candidate.
The seat is vacant in 1d Isère constituency since the resignation, on October 9, of former deputy (LFI) Hugo Prévost, accused of sexist and sexual violence. “Maintaining this left-wing electorate must be the only objective that drives us”Amandine Germain, elected by the local militants of the Socialist Party (PS), declares in a statement in a context of tensions between the NFP forces around this headquarters.
“The left has no chance of winning this constituency if it is not united”adds the departmental counselor, supporting the candidacy of child rights activist Lyes Louffok, “whose professional career and commitments I respect.” “I regret, therefore, the position of La France Insoumise of imposing a candidate without prior and local listening or discussion, as well as the intransigence and methods of the LFI political apparatus, which seriously concern me for the future of the left-wing union »he adds, however.
Olivier Véran will not campaign again
The profile of Lyes Louffok, who made his first political campaign in Val-de-Marne in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, where he was defeated in the second round by the republican candidate Sylvain Berrios, is seen by some as an asset. The latter’s fight for the rights and protection of children, due to his personal history, seems a guarantee after the Hugo Prevost case.
On Tuesday, the former Minister of Health and former Government spokesman Olivier Véran, described as “the country’s child”, announced that he would not compete again in this race that Hugo Prévost took from him in July. His deputy, Camille Galliard-Minier, will be a candidate to represent the presidential coalition in these partial legislative elections, the date of which has not yet been set.
Marine Tondelier, head of the Ecologists, has already confirmed that her party will support the LFI candidate. The NFP candidate in Matignon, Lucie Castets, had thought for some time about running in this constituency, before giving up. The “rebels” demanded that she sit within their group.
