Like the Socialist Party, La France Insoumise (LFI) will not participate in the new assembly of party leaders proposed by Emmanuel Macron on November 17, the left-wing movement announced on Tuesday, November 7.
“We reject the multiplication of those monarchical exercises aimed at avoiding the debate organized in its constitutional bureaucracy (. . . ). That is why we will not be in this new communication exercise. We will continue to bring our proposals to Parliament,” LFI wrote.
“We note that the proposals of the President of the Republic on an imaginable reform of the referendum give a privileged position to the proposals of the right and the extreme right, but exclude any possibility of consulting the French people on the pension reform,” LFI also notes.
After Olivier Faure, Manuel Bompard will be absent on November 17. The decision of the LFI coordinator is not surprising: after the first marathon training of the “Saint-Denis Meetings” at the end of August, he is very skeptical about the future participation in a similar training.
As far as environmentalists are concerned, an official response will be given on Tuesday, but the entourage of the national secretary of Europe for Ecology-The Greens, Marine Tondelier, explained on Monday that the presence of the latter would make it possible to talk about the environment. and social justice issues, and pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza. The French Communist Party was due to meet on Monday to discuss the issue. Its national secretary, Fabien Roussel, has not yet given his response.
On Monday, Faure announced that he would not attend the Nov. 17 conference. This is, in particular, Macron’s proposal, in his invitation, to broaden the scope of the issues to “social issues”, adding that of immigration.
“It’s an appeal to the Republicans who ask for it, like the RN [National Rally],” he said. Faure. ” I will never participate in this agreement,” the socialist said, adding that, in his letter, Mr. . Macron would close the door on left-wing referendum proposals on super-profit taxation and pension reform. He added: “If he needs to embrace the right and push reasoning to the right, which is very clever for him, it will be without me. “