France Insoumise defends the exclusion of prominent figures as an effort to enrich the electoral lists

June 16 () –

The general secretary of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Manuel Bompard, defended this Sunday the exclusion of some important figures of the party from the legislative elections as an attempt to enrich the electoral lists and rejected the idea that it is a “purge”, as pointed out some of those discarded.

“To truly constitute a New Popular Front,” explained Bompard in relation to the left-wing alliance of which LFI is a part to combat the emergence of the extreme right, “our electoral commission chose to propose candidates who do not necessarily come from our ranks. “, such as the union leader Céline Verzeletti, of the General Confederation of Labor.

Bompard has taken the opportunity to ask that prominent deputies such as Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido fulfill “a duty of coherence and loyalty”, who this past Saturday protested against the exclusion from the lists and accused the leader of the party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of to carry out an internal purge of his critics. “We are at a very crucial moment,” Bompard said in comments to BFMTV.

The general secretary of LFI has taken the opportunity to applaud the resignation of his deputy Adrien Quatennens from his candidacy, whose inclusion in the lists provoked another front in the internal dispute of the alliance, since Quatennens is convicted of having slapped his wife. “I celebrate his sense of responsibility, and it is his decision,” he said.