the social democratic left is split on the perspective to take in the direction of Mélenchon | EUROtoday

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The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, at the National Assembly, in Paris, February 17, 2026.

Stay sheltered whereas ready for the storm to go. Since the dying of Quentin Deranque, Thursday February 12, in Lyon, sufferer of an assault by anti-fascist activists, Marine Tondelier and Olivier Faure have been discreet on the nationwide media scene. The nationwide secretary of the Ecologists and the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) have been nonetheless in nice demand. Should we see this as a type of embarrassment concerning the perspective to be taken in the direction of La France insoumise (LFI), after the arrest of a number of parliamentary collaborators of the LFI deputy for Vaucluse, Raphaël Arnault, founding father of the Jeune Garde, the small Lyon group to which a number of suspects belonged?

” Fake “replies the entourage of Olivier Faure who highlights “measurement and appeasement” vital in the course of the interval. “We are in the countryside”evacuates that of Marine Tondelier. The two leaders of the left revealed a written textual content, a way which saves them from ping-ponging with journalists. Candidate for the 2027 presidential election, Marine Tondelier spares the motion of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, preferring to castigate the “political violence” coming from “the extreme right”.

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