Paris (AFP)

First discordant voices rise in public, but the main executives of insubordinate France, exhausted Sunday by the division by three of its score between the presidential and European elections, tighten for the moment the ranks around Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Republicans, other big losers of the poll Sunday, the debate is off the ground. But at LFI, despite a score dropped to 6.31% Sunday, far from the 19.58% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2017 presidential election, nothing has filtered from the meeting of the parliamentary group Tuesday morning, the main venue strategic discussion.

"It went well, everyone was able to express themselves on what he thought of the campaign," says AFP Eric Coquerel MP, also coordinator of the Left Party, founding component of LFI .

MP Clémentine Autain, however, opened the debate on Sunday night and the following days: "What is at stake is the political line of LFI," she attacked in the media. She also lamented "the recurrence of formulations" aimed at "cleaving", as well as "walls" erected "where it would have been more necessary to seek to build bridges".

Other reproaches have arisen on the social networks, coming for example from Manon Le Bretton, head of the insubordinate training school: "Exhausted by this campaign, not so much by the energy deployed on the ground, as by the disagreements and alerts that I expressed internally about the line adopted, which abandoned the remarkable work begun in 2017, "she tweeted. "I'm crying for being right, with others."

In particular, it refers to the lack of collective decision-making structures on the strategy, which resulted in several departures. "This failure must lead LFI to regenerate" around a "line co-built with the militants", summarizes with AFP a candidate for European.

- "Illegible" -

According to a rebellious executive, "it's already rocking" but "nothing is clearly visible". He warns: "Either leaders have an intelligent reaction to rethink the movement" in a way as democratic as its ideals, "or LFI is becoming more and more".

For now, the lieutenants of Mr. Mélenchon are rather up to the niche to relativize the defeat. MEP Alexis Corbière lamented that Clémentine Autain had "gone on the radio before we meet," saying: "It is useless to try to pull his own needle".

LFI has certainly "failed to show those who suffer from the system that the issue was such that we had to move and vote for us", but "it is an election that is very hard for us, where our electorate popular abstains considerably, "said Eric Coquerel.

"It's a pipe! It was a national poll, a point of passage to the presidential", cingle François Cocq, former national speaker LFI fired a tweet by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in January, but who intends to continue to militate . He criticizes LFI's strategy of opening to the left, which, for example, hosted part of the left wing of the PS in the autumn: "We have preferred, in view of the forthcoming local elections, to return to the drums. Municipalities are going to be an incredible mess for LFI that will be illegible ".

"We are not in personal wars, everyone has the right to speak," says AFP Muriel Ressiguier, another MP. However, "we thought we should not react hot, everyone will think."

The possible impact of Mr. Mélenchon's mediated anger during the searches at LFI headquarters in October? "Usually, what happens is that everyone closes it, it does not argue," thinks to know an elder of the movement, for whom "Mélenchon sends bouler (any criticism), which he then classifies as not reliable ".

Even in the grassroots, "the analysis is quite poor," says a northerner activist who begins to take a step back, criticizing decisions "increasingly opportunistic" Mr. Mélenchon and his relatives. He sighs: "The activists have been locked up and locked themselves into a militant honor, so they obey."

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