Accusing his party of having "lost its soul" by allying itself with rebellious France, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis believes that "an Everything except Mélenchon is being built", assured Sunday the former First Secretary of the PS .

“An All but Mélenchon is being built because he has not put himself in a position to be in the center of the left.

This agreement will not be lasting and will not hold”, estimates Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on radio J, the day after the Convention recording the birth on the left of the “New popular ecological and social union” (Nupes) led by the rebellious France of Jean-Luc Melenchon.

"The PS lost its soul for a dish of lentils"

“When Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be confronted with a wave of Everything but Mélenchon during the legislative campaign, few socialist and environmental leaders will come to his aid”, adds the former boss of the PS.

While the rebellious leader, with his 22% in the presidential election, has managed to bring together under a common banner the ecologists of EELV, the Communists and the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis says he is "hostile since the first day to this agreement , because Jean-Luc Mélenchon's program is three exits: the exit from Europe, the exit from NATO and the exit from the WTO" which, according to him, would transform France into "North Korea ".

“The PS lost its soul for a dish of lentils” by agreeing to “sell off our convictions for a few constituencies”, regrets Jean-Christophe Cambadélis who foresees a defeat for Nupes in the June legislative elections.

“There can be a very good first round but in the second we will come up against the reality of the balance of power in the country.

There are no reserves for the second round,” he said.

A "scam", according to EELV

Several historical figures, starting with François Hollande, have criticized the LFI-PS agreement in recent days.

On Saturday, former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who has already returned his party card, denounced "abject attacks" from rebellious France which is "of sometimes unbearable political violence".

“We have nothing to do with this way of approaching things, this violence, this insult, always present at the corner of the lips.

It's not the humanist left,” he told France Bleu Cotentin.

Among environmentalists too, discontent is rising.

In a forum in

Le Monde

on Saturday, three former MEPs, Jean-Paul Besset, José Bové and Daniel Cohn-Bendit accuse, in very harsh words, the leaders of the Greens of betraying the founding values ​​of EELV.

“Who gave you the right to dispose of our consciences, in the name of obscure electoral negotiations?

», « Aren't you ashamed?

they ask, expressing their “anger” and “disgust” at what they call a “scam” and “nameless infamy”.

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