The image is already talking about her. Monday night, Cécile Duflot, ecologist former housing minister, attended the meeting to support Syriza , this Greek party that hopes to get an absolute majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Next to her in the gymnasium Japy 10th arrondissement of Paris, one could see Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the Left Party, Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the Communist Party, but also Clémentine Autain, movement Together Pierre Larrouturou, New Deal and two deputies PS: Guillaume Balas, MEP and Pouria Amirshahi, both considered “rebellious”.
“I have the feeling of being in my place”
A surprising variety, never seen since the arrival of Francois Hollande at the Elysee. Last December, however, Cécile Duflot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon had initiated a semblance of reconciliation on the plateau Words and deeds , on France 2. The meeting of Monday night seems to have materialized this first contact, far from the conflicts of the past.
“I saw how it could be tied up by a vision of European policy sterilizing” joked Cécile Duflot, referring to his time in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault. An early mea culpa? The member will not go far. “Maybe it will surprise you, but I have the feeling to be here in my place,” she says at the meeting. “Our political family is the one who refuses fatality, one that refuses to believe that a single policy is possible.”
Mélenchon wants to build “an alliance”
But no question to discuss the participation of Europe Ecology – The Greens to a new emerging coalition of left PS: it is in any case what Cécile Duflot is working to repeat to the press. “This meeting means something for France, but it is too simple and comfortable to bring things to the level of French politics (…) It is the European level that deal with the issues,” notes-t Tuesday morning she France Inter . “The energy transition, the investment we need is at European level to wear it. The fight against terrorism (…) is also at the European level it needs some work” .
“Make a debate in France to say that we support a Greek party” is “interesting,” she said, because it is a “first transnational debates” between European parties. One debate, and then goes away? Without suites, this gathering could miss weight. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also included. “You have to offer something ample, which is not closely shop and supporter,” said he said Tuesday on BFM TV. This “alliance”, “we are working to build,” he says. It remains to see who will agree to participate. And the leader of the Left Front conclusion “. Let us patience and firmness Our time will come”
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