The PS and Public Place condemn “the anti-Semitic remarks” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and lower ties earlier than the municipal elections | EUROtoday

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Raphaël Glucksmann, co-president of Place publique, with members of the Confédération paysanne, during the Agricultural Show, in Paris, February 23, 2026.

Is the breakup now? The sequence of controversies signed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon since mid-February has hastened the opposite left-wing events to resolve on potential alliances with La France insoumise (LFI) on the daybreak of the municipal elections. Losing cities or elections reasonably than allying with LFI, that is the query – politically perilous – which continues to be requested of the leaders of the Socialist Party (PS), Place publique, the Ecologists and even the French Communist Party.

Raphaël Glucksmann’s motion gave the “la”. Place publique thus cleaned up its ranks, withdrawing its assist from its invested candidates in the event that they have been alongside “rebellious” within the municipal lists. The maneuver, electorally cheap for such a younger motion which has solely 150 candidates, solely issues a handful of activists. At most twenty, in accordance with administration, noticed the assist of Place publique disappear. In Beauvais, its native consultant Guillaume Cervantes, current on a union checklist of the left going so far as LFI and led by Roxane Lundy (Génération. s), was ostracized.

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