The union of the left towards the break point.

Baptized the day after the dissolution of June 9, the young New Popular Front (NFP) struggles to hide the cracks that deepen its walls every day. In recent weeks, socialists and “rebels” have increased the opportunities to destroy each other, under the helpless gaze of environmentalists. As the fall of Michel Barnier’s government becomes increasingly plausible, positions on the “day after” They seem irreconcilable.

The socialists do not wait “bit” of his meeting with the Prime Minister, on Wednesday morning, November 27. In the event that Michel Barnier resorts to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, they will vote as one man – including the former president of the Republic and socialist deputy of Corrèze François Hollande. a motion of censure that could, with the votes of the National Assembly, obtain a majority in the National Assembly.

For the Socialist Party (PS), it is not about returning to the summer scene by promoting Emmanuel Macron’s candidacy of arch Lucie Castets to lead an NFP government. On Sunday, November 24, on France Inter, the president of the PS group in the Assembly, Boris Vallaud, took a shot into the water by wishing “raise the issue of non-censorship”. A way to get closer to the Macronists, while the left is missing a hundred votes to be a majority.

“The PS is in the process of organizing a new “common base” with others in place of the New Popular Front. Vallaud, Faure, Bouamrane extend their hand to them”, said the leader of France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, about Karim Bouamrane. “Vallaud proposes starting not from the NFP, but from the republican front. But the Republican front is not a political program. It will be without us! »decides the LFI deputy for Val-d’Oise Aurélien Taché, who recognizes that the rag between “rebels” and socialists is burning. “We rarely talk to each other.”, much less” than at the time of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes, predecessor of the PFN between 2022 and 2024).

“Unnecessary provocation”

While they promote, without believing in it, the Lucie Castets option, the “rebels” instead wish to obtain a “early presidential”. “Barnier will fall, crises will follow one another, what else can resolve the situation? »asks Aurélien Taché. An attitude that infuriates socialists who want to govern. The socialist deputy of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire thus accuses his partners of “Reject the power and the responsibilities that come with it”. “They are failing to fulfill their duties towards the voters”criticism.

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