Nothing that really surprises. The day after the first round of the municipal elections, marked by a surprise breakthrough by La France Insoumise (LFI), the left has decided to form a common front in several major cities before the deadline for submitting the lists for the second round to the prefecture, set for Tuesday at 6 p.m. With the exception of Paris and Marseille, where no alliance has been sealed, the Socialist or Green candidates have concluded numerous agreements with their former Mélenchonist competitors - in Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg, Nantes, Limoges, Avignon, Brest and Clermont-Ferrand. And this, despite the absence of a “national agreement” between the party with the rose and LFI, which supports an “anti-fascist front” in the face of the risk of victories for the right.
Immediately, the staffs concerned attracted the wrath of their opponents, who have no words harsh enough to castigate these agreements. For good reason: LFI was still, until recently, ostracized by the political class because of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s excesses deemed anti-Semitic - including by the Socialists - and his procrastination after the death of Quentin Deranque, a nationalist student killed in mid-February in Lyon. Starting with the former prime minister, Gabriel Attal. On the social network X, the secretary general of Renaissance doesn’t beat around the bush: “What was supposed to be impossible is in fact becoming the rule. France needs more than ever that democrats stand up, not on their knees,” castigated the leader of the EPR deputies.
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“The most hypocritical left on earth” for Le Pen For the presidential candidate, the non-Mélenchonist left “sells out (its) principles to save their seats by allying with LFI.” “The anti-Semitism denounced by the PS office is therefore unacceptable at the national level but quite acceptable at the local level. What a bunch of Tartuffes!”, charges the Vendée senator, calling on the French to “sanction”, next Sunday at the ballot box, “this left that wallows in shame and dishonour”.
The same is true of LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy: “What would it be like if there was a national agreement?” the philosopher scoffs. “Absolutely nothing can justify this indecent denial. By submitting to a party that justifies lynching, relies on violence, purges its dissidents, threatens its opponents, organizes its militia, exploits Islamism, feeds anti-Semitism, to a party that insults it every day and will end up destroying it, the PS is degrading and disqualifying itself forever,” storms the deputy vice-president of LR. Marine Le Pen, who has been rather discreet since the first round, does not mince her words either: “Neither the anti-Semitic outbursts, nor the calls for political violence and their justifications will have got the better of the essential mission of the most hypocritical left on earth: to save their mandates!” said the three-time candidate for the Élysée.