Fabien Roussel compares France rebellious to a “sect” after the publication of “La Meute” on the occasion of Jean-Luc Mélenchon | EUROtoday

The secretary normal of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, denounced Tuesday, May 6, the shortage of “Democracy inside” of rebellious France (LFI), evaluating it to “A sect under the influence of a couple”after the revelations on inner practices in LFI of a e-book inquiry to be revealed on Wednesday.
“I understand that the behaviors of the management of rebellious France approached the behavior of a sect under the influence of a couple, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his partner, Sophia Chikirou”herself a member of Paris, commented the communist supervisor on BFM-TV/RMC.
Journalists Charlotte Belaïch (Release) and Olivier Pérou (The world) revealed an investigation into the motion created by the previous socialist in 2016 on Wednesday, entitled The pack (Flammarion), of which The world has revealed lengthy extracts.
“It’s not fairly to see”estimated Fabien Roussel, seeing it “An actual topic” For the left, especially in the perspective of the 2027 presidential election. “There is loads of democracy within the motion of rebellious France but in addition in France”completed the national secretary of the PCF, who says that Jean-Luc Mélenchon “Is not a very good candidate, a good selection for France”.
“Confidence in democracy”
Fabien Roussel, whose party combined with LFI for the legislative elections of 2022 (within the framework of the new popular union, environmentalist and social) and 2024 (within the new Popular Front), has never hidden its reservations about the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He recalled that he decided to appear in front of him in the first round of the last presidential election for this reason.
But he assured to do “Confidence in democracy, voters, electrical energy, French, those that are exactly voting to have the lucidity to make sure that, within the second spherical of the presidential election, there’s a candidate of a honest, democratic, republican, secular left, which can lastly carry the hopes of an actual change”.
The new revelations of this investigation book are added to the testimonies already collected, in particular after the exclusion, during the last legislative elections, of several former close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused of opposing internal practices or certain positions of the party.
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