No, the left is not “irreconcilable” – Liberation

This is one of the few areas on which they agree: “There are irreconcilable positions to the left and you have to take,” said on Monday evening Manuel Valls during a “republican rally” organized in Corbeil-Essonnes, before the militants and supporters in his constituency. There are a few weeks, we already found that speech in the mouth of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “There are two lines [left] and must be resolved. In a democracy, it is the universal suffrage that cuts “ No way to participate in a primary that could. – Yet – have the advantage of agreeing on a (an) applicant (s) common (e) (and thus on the program that goes with it) before the first round of presidential elections to be sure that the left is shown in the second. Here too, and Mélenchon Valls agree: “I can not govern with those who believe that François Hollande, it’s worse than Nicolas Sarkozy, or Manuel Valls, it’s worse than Jean- Marie Le Pen “, launched the Prime Minister in Essonne. The same evening, the Déjazet Theatre in Paris, where he gave his first candidate speeches Version 2017 (see page 8), Mélenchon has again rejected any participation in a primary: “it tells me to gather the left. Me together with Valls? It will not, right? “

The two men have yet been members of the same party. Mélenchon was even head of the PS federation of Essonne when the young Valls landed in the department. Today they bet both on a new political era. That of the end of the left-right divide. Political reshuffling of great magnitude that would mark the end of a cardinal rule in the V ^th Republic without union, left, is reduced to the opposition camp. Yet they both have experienced throughout their careers, a French political reality: no union between the different families of the left – even difficult – there is no possible victory. Otherwise, why the current prime minister have made, in 2008, a list of “union of the left”, including Communists, to win in the first round to municipal? Mélenchon himself has been for two years, minister of Lionel Jospin which never would have happened at Matignon without an alliance between pink, green and red. Francois Hollande, in 2012, would not have resisted the return of Nicolas Sarkozy in the period between the two rounds without three of the four million voters of Mélenchon who carried him. And Europe (Spain, Portugal …), it is also thanks to the post-election union with “the other left” than the Social Democrats made their return to power. When they refuse, as in Germany, they are reduced to participate in a “grand coalition”. In simple junior partners their conservative opponents. They no longer saw the chancellery decade

Journalist Lilian Alemagna service policy