We will have to wait before seeing the socialists walk hand in hand with the rebellious.

The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure said he was ready on Saturday to engage in a dialogue with Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the legislative elections, but the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot replied that there would be no discussions.

Above all, she described this refusal as “final”.

While the Insoumis proposed Friday to environmentalists and communists to form a coalition for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, but excluding the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure assures that "(his) hand is outstretched", in an interview with

Liberation

.

For Olivier Faure, "it is not possible to refuse the discussion"

"I am ready to engage in a dialogue on the condition that it is not the staging of a lying poker", explains the First Secretary who, on the evening of the first round, had called for "a pact for social justice and ecological”.

He recognizes that "the presidential campaign has left traces" between the two camps, but "now we have to overcome the resentments that exist".

According to him, "unless you accept the idea that the left has only a minority vocation, it is not possible to refuse discussion with the left formation which has the strongest territorial network", it ie the PS.

However, he poses some principles for an agreement: “First, aim for single candidates wherever the threat of the far right exists.

Then, avoid fratricidal duels each time there is a leftist or environmentalist”.

“Finally, agree as often as possible on the candidate who has the best chance of winning against the right, taking into account the results of the last elections, the dynamics specific to the presidential election and the territorial settlements ".

“The rebels bear the main responsibility for the gathering because of their score.

But they would be wrong to see it as a blank check,” he insists.

Because, while the rebellious want to build a coalition on the basis of their program, Olivier Faure believes that “the gathering will never be caporalization.

Disagreements exist.

(…) We must come together on our common fights while respecting different stories and projects”.

Jadot and Roussel will have to explain themselves

LFI's response will have taken less than 24 hours to come.

And she is particularly scathing.

Mathilde Panot indeed answered in the

JDD

, that there would be “no discussions”, “and this refusal is final”.

The PS candidate “Anne Hidalgo did not want to build anything with us.

We have taken note of his attacks and his refusal to draw a lucid assessment of François Hollande's five-year term".

She also specifies that Yannick Jadot and Fabien Roussel "must be accountable for their numerous attacks on Mélenchon, it is a prerequisite".

“We are not asking for an exercise in public flogging (…) but they owe us an explanation.

Yesterday for Jadot, we were Poutine's friends.

Today, this does not seem to prevent his party from wanting to discuss with us”.

The cement in the alliances is therefore still far from having set.

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