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Jean-Luc Mélenchon attends from a public gallery the vote on the motion of censure against the government of Michel Barnier, at the National Assembly, in Paris, December 4, 2024.

To measure the robustness of the New Popular Front (NFP), there isn’t a extra sufficient software than a lunch with Lucie Castets, the left’s candidate for Matignon in the summertime of 2024 and indestructible transmission belt between the staffs communists, ecologists, “rebels” and socialists. And it’s clear that on this Tuesday, January 7, regardless of the freezing Parisian rain, the 37-year-old enarque is all smiles and even has some couscous.

Despite a “shortness of breath” of the NFP which it could be sophisticated to not discover, the senior civil servant prefers to level out all these inexperienced lights that are flashing, in accordance with her, throughout the union of the left. Doesn’t she invite the 4 companions to a gathering each week? Certainly… It is commonly a “variable geometry participation” – absentees are all the time incorrect… Yes, however she is very comfortable {that a} name for “repair the public hospital and access to local care”, signed by the leaders of the NFP, was revealed only some days in the past, Saturday January 4.

“Within the NFP, tensions between the events will all the time exist, she analyzes. It is by discovering widespread programmatic axes that we’ll get by way of this. » And to quote, for instance, the 2 legislative proposals launched by the NFP, on the caregiver/affected person quota and the combat in opposition to medical deserts, adopted by the National Assembly. A contact of concern, all the identical, amongst Lucie Castets, within the run-up to François Bayrou’s normal coverage declaration on January 14, and the movement of censure in precept, which might be filed, within the course of, by La France insoumise (LFI).

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