Is France Insoumise (LFI) a far-left group? In a round specifying the labels of political events for the municipal elections in March, printed on February 4, the Ministry of the Interior modified that regarding LFI, transferring the populist motion from the class “ left”, which incorporates the Socialist Party, the Ecologists and the Communist Party, to the “extreme left” class, the place we discover, for instance, Lutte Ouvrière (LO).
Furious, Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced on “banana republic”inside which the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, “trouble electoral public order”, “Trump-style”. “Since when has the Minister of the Interior decided on this type of change? To satisfy what demand and from whom? Why now? »pretended to question the “rebellious” chief, stuffed with innuendoes. The coordinator of the motion, Manuel Bompard, denounced a “scheme” and Ugo Bernalicis, deputy (LFI) of the North, “an assumed political act of destabilization”.
Particularly embarrassing, the classification attracts an equivalence between LFI and the National Rally (RN), giving arguments to these, just like the Macronists, who wished to exclude Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s motion from the republican subject and ship again to again the “extremes”. LFI introduced the submitting of an attraction earlier than the Council of State, which has one month to rule within the context of a abstract process. The determination of the excessive court docket guarantees to be key for the “rebellious” motion. The “extreme left” label might carry weight within the perspective of a presidential election, significantly if Jean-Luc Mélenchon manages to succeed in the second spherical.
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