“Meeting in Saint-Denis”: LFI, in turn, refuses Macron’s invitation

The second part will be filled less than the first. Following the Socialist Party’s refusal, La France insoumise announced on Tuesday that it would not attend a new meeting of party leaders proposed by Emmanuel Macron on November 17.

“We reject the multiplication of these monarchical exercises aimed at circumventing debates organized in their constitutional forms (…) This is why we will not participate in this new communication exercise. We will continue to submit our proposals to parliament,” the radical left party writes in a press release.

“We observe that the work of the President of the Republic on possible referendum reform gives pride of place to proposals from the right and far right, but excludes any possibility of consulting the French on pension reform,” LFI also notes.

An absence that comes as no surprise

After Olivier Faure, Manuel Bompard will disappear on November 17th. The decision of the coordinator of La France insoumise is not surprising: after the first marathon exercise “Encounters of Saint-Denis” at the end of August, he was very skeptical about future participation in exercises of the same type.

What about the other two left-wing parties? An official response from environmentalists will be given in the coming hours, but party leader Marine Tondelier’s entourage stressed on Monday that her presence will allow discussion of issues of environmental and social justice, as well as push for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

As for the French Communist Party, its national secretary Fabien Roussel has not yet given his answer.