Will an agreement be reached?
"I don't know, but I wish so", he commented, judging that no divergence seemed to him "unsurpassable".
With 21.95% of the votes of its candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the presidential election, LFI has launched bilateral discussions with the other left-wing parties in order to find an agreement for the legislative elections.
The negotiations supposed to end on Sunday with the ecologists of EELV, the Communist Party (PCF), the PS and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), all below 5% in the April 10 ballot, are experiencing accelerations and successive blocks.
“We continue to discuss everything, the substance of the strategy, the constituencies”, explained Mr. Faure: “If we have the claim to govern tomorrow, we must agree on the substance and not be in a grub election."
Olivier Faure's position is disputed by the minority of the PS, who accuse him of selling off the party's positions.
His predecessor Jean-Christophe Cambadélis thus evokes in an open letter on Sunday LFI's desire to "leave the European treaties", "found the Sixth Republic", bring retirement back to 60 and launch "impractical dizzying expenses".
Calling himself "a convinced European", Olivier Faure said on Sunday his wish "that the term of disobedience (to common European rules, editor's note) not be included in the common platform".
"We are not Frexitors," he insisted.
Asked about LFI's plan to bring the legal retirement age back to 60, he felt that an "essential step" would be to make this change during the five-year term for long careers and difficult jobs.
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