Fabien Roussel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the leaders of Nupes meet for the “L’Huma” Festival – Le Monde

The leading figures of the left meet for the traditional Fête de L’Humanité, which takes place this year in Brétigny-sur-Orge, in Essonne, from Friday September 9 to Sunday September 11. Are expected, Saturday, a great interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the presence of new stands of socialists and environmentalists, as well as a meeting of the communist Fabien Roussel. Mr. Roussel wished, on Friday, during the traditional “speech to personalities” on the national stand of his party, a good “return to this great meeting of social struggles”. “Our CNR to us, we want it popular and it is here”, proclaimed leader of the French Communist Party (PCF), in reference to the National Council for Refoundation launched by Emmanuel Macron, Thursday, and which the oppositions boycotted. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Around Emmanuel Macron, a Refoundation Council without emulation Jean-Luc Mélenchon back “alone with his audience” Scrambled for several years with the Communists, resulting in the candidacy of Fabien Roussel in the presidential election last April, Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks at 11 am on the stage of the Agora, for an interview with a journalist from the newspaper L’Humanité. Mr. Roussel regretted in front of the journalists, Friday, that Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not accept the invitation to the Nupes debate, scheduled for Saturday 4 p.m., with himself, the socialist leaders, Olivier Faure, and ecologist, Julien Bayou, and Mathilde Panot, president of the deputies La France insoumise (LFI). “Let’s all debate together, that would have been great … But Jean-Luc likes to be alone with his audience”, tackled, on stage, the national secretary of the PCF. And to warn that he “will continue to carry a singular voice”. He thus advocated a “labour left and not benefits”, believing that the Nupes had failed to speak to the working classes. Fabien Roussel said he did not want “a France of unemployment, bonuses, social minima and poverty; we want dignity, earned through hard work”. “A left that speaks as much to the peasants as to the workers, to the French in the cities as to those in the fields”, he added. Read also: Article reserved for our LFI, PS, EELV subscribers… After the unitary spring election sequence, identity issues are resurfacing on the left Rare presence of socialists and EELV “It is true that part of the population does not did not follow the left “and we must” restore his confidence “, reacted the socialist Olivier Faure. But, according to him, a “Republic of Labor” is not incompatible with “the protection of Unemployment Insurance”. “We must not oppose those who are in employment and those who are not”, estimated Léa Balage El-Mariky, right arm of Julien Bayou at EELV. “We Greens want to promote something other than emancipation through wage labor,” she added. The goal of Fabien Roussel’s PCF, “it is not to differentiate ourselves, but we do not want to be included in LFI”, ensure, in the spans of the Festival, Roland and Michelle, retirees and communist activists from Essonne. They nevertheless say they hold to the Nupes, which has made it possible to elect “many left-wing deputies”. “And for the moment it holds, the parties are on the same wavelength and it has to be hard. “They may have the opportunity to stop at the stands of LFI, EELV and PS, absent in recent years. “I have never known a PS stand at the Fête de L’Humanité”, reacted, all smiles Olivier Faure. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers The “left-wing people”, a coherent whole in substance but divided in form Le Monde with AFP