Legislative: EELV refuses a “hegemony” of Mélenchon, LFI proposes a “federation”

Europe 1 with AFP 5:34 p.m., April 27, 2022

A union difficult to set up.

The boss of EELV Julien Bayou criticized Wednesday a "hegemonic will" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in view of the legislative elections, pleading for "a coalition" of the left, while LFI proposes "a federation".

After a promising start, negotiations for an agreement are slipping between La France insoumise, EELV and the PCF, LFI and environmentalists mutually rejecting responsibility, while the PS must enter the dance on Wednesday at the end of the morning. via a meeting with the Insoumis.

Bayou open to the idea of ​​seeing Mélenchon Prime Minister

"Does Jean-Luc Mélenchon want to be Prime Minister? We say chick! Let's win together. But the alliance cannot be made with a hegemonic will: it is not a question of electing holograms in all the constituencies “, launches Julien Bayou in an interview with

, pleading for a “representation of each” which is “fair”, and not an “unfair and ill-conceived bric-a-brac”.

Thus, "we are proposing a coalition", because "if Jean-Luc Mélenchon chooses to make the same political offer to the legislative elections as for the presidential election, it will produce the same effect: perhaps a good score, but it will fail to weigh on the quinquennium”, he explained on

The 9th district of Paris at the heart of the debates

But in the common program to be built, "we don't want a trickle of warm water, we don't want the lowest common denominator (...) We have convictions, take it or leave it", he underlined, confirming that Europe is a "point of absolute vigilance" for environmentalists.

The nuclear is also "a red line", while the PCF is favorable to the atom.

Julien Bayou also accused LFI of refusing the 9th district of Paris to Sandrine Rousseau, when she is, according to him, "pre-invested" by EELV.

For its part, LFI denies any hegemonic desire and links the "difficulties" encountered in discussions with EELV to "divisions and differences within this organization itself".

"We do not want annexation, dilution or absorption" of other political forces, the movement said in a statement on Tuesday, after a meeting of the parliamentary intergroup.

"Discussions started some time ago"

"No question of hegemony, of saying to the parties 'you must dissolve'", insisted LFI deputy Clémentine Autain on Wednesday on

, advocating a "federation" and "an intergroup in the National Assembly, which says intergroup says 'everyone has his group'", she argued.

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In front of LFI's Paris headquarters, Adrien Quatennens, LFI's number 2, told the press: "These are meetings that require a lot of work, a lot of hours. It has to go quickly."

According to him, "the discussions started some time ago, we say to ourselves that if we want to govern together, it is not true that we can be satisfied with 10-15 program points to campaign".