Clémentine Autain, LFI deputy from Seine-Saint-Denis, called for the emergence of "a popular ecologist left", Sunday, at a meeting for a "big bang left" Romanes Circus in Paris. "It is necessary to create a dynamic" around a "big bang" of the left political, associative and cultural, she launched in front of about 400 people.
Before her, Elsa Faucillon, PCF deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, had called for the constitution of "big bang committees, everywhere, to debate, on December 7 and 8, there will be a national moment, not necessarily in Paris". MP Insoumise said she would set up "a collaborative platform in September".
She does not leave France insubordinate
By the end of the year, three appointments are scheduled, one on democracy, the other on "ecology", the third on "work". "Then there will be the municipal elections.The idea is to make fewer lists, not more," said the one who plans to "federate" on the left. But "there is no solution if we do not respect pluralism, we must make an archipelago of citizens where we respect the identity of each one".
Highly critical of France Insoumise, which suffered a heavy defeat in the European (6.31%), Clémentine Autain, however, said in the Sunday newspaper of June 30 that she did not want, at this stage, to leave his party. "Leaving LFI would be an act of rupture" and "for now, our approach (note for a" big bang ") is mocked by the insubordinate direction.But the debate is just beginning: our door is open", a- she said.
Olivier Besancenot and Philippe Martinez among the speakers
Several speakers followed at the meeting, including Philippe Martinez, General Secretary of the CGT, who criticized President Emmanuel Macron for "trying to dismiss the unions", or Olivier Besancenot. The spokesman of the NPA, which had called early June for the creation of a "permanent coordination of the left in struggle," lamented "the great rendezvous missed the radical left" with the 'yellow vests'. "When we read" such meetings, "we magnify the political appointments that come after," he added, referring to the meager results of European. The philosopher Etienne Balibar, who was unable to attend the meeting, sent a video message of support, as well as the former MP EELV Noël Mamère.