In a column in Le Monde, activists from LFI and Nupes denounce a “vertical system favoring the protection of senior executives at the expense of activists and programs”.
More than a thousand LFI and Nupes activists sign a platform on Monday in The world to denounce the decision of the movement to exclude only temporarily from its parliamentary group the deputy Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence.
“We, members of insubordinate France and Nupes demand the exclusion of Adrien Quatennens”, can we read in the forum.
“We call on activists to insubordination,” they continue, denouncing a “vertical system that favors the protection of senior executives at the expense of activists and programs”.
“Enforce your promises”
“We are asking for a fairer internal democracy where the representatives will be appointed and legitimized by the militants and not essentially by the circle restricted by the national office”, they write again.
“Apply your promises, act: yes, the private is political, no aggressor has its place in our parties, our organizations, our institutions, in our hemicycles”, urge the signatories.
Suspended for four months from his group in the National Assembly in the wake of his conviction, in early December, to a four-month suspended prison sentence for “violence” on his wife, the deputy from the North declared himself the victim of a “media lynching” and refused to resign.
Since the start of this affair, La France Insoumise (LFI), the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon – who came third in the presidential election and of which Adrien Quatennens is one of the most loyal lieutenants – has been shaken by the turbulence.
