An announcement that surprised more than one. Although his case has been the subject of heated debate among left-wing parties, outgoing LFI MP Adrien Quatennens will be the candidate to succeed him in the legislative elections for the 1st Northern district, despite his conviction for domestic violence.
At the same time, the party announced the dismissal of six historical figures from the LFI, who personify divisions within the Radical Left Party, in particular for expressing certain criticism of the leadership of the LFI and, in particular, Jean-Luc Mélenchon towards certain people.
Alexis Corbiere
However, he was one of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s closest companions. After joining the Socialist Party in 1998, he quickly became considered close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose technical adviser he became in 2000. In 2008, he left the party to found the Party of the Left (PG) under the leadership of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. . In the 2012 presidential elections, he was part of the Left Front campaign team and became a candidate in the legislative elections in the 8th constituency of Paris.
In 2017, Alexis Corbière became the spokesman for Jean-Luc Mélenchon during the presidential campaign and is often invited to the media to explain the positions of his candidate and his movement. He then stood in the legislative elections for the 7th arrondissement of Seine-Saint-Denis and was elected as a deputy. He was also re-elected in 2022, this time in the first round.
In December 2022, he expressed “radical” disagreement with the new leadership of the LFI, regretting the lack of elections to appoint him. Having learned of his dismissal on the LFI website, this Friday, without even receiving a phone call, he accuses Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “settling scores.”
Rachel Garrido
Raquel Garrido, wife of Alexis Corbier, is also one of LFI’s new undesirables. Born in Chile and naturalized in France in 1999, she trained as a lawyer and it was in this context that she met Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose lawyer she became. An activist in the Socialist Party from 1993 to 2008, she co-founded the Left Party in 2008 and was a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections for the French 2nd constituency, created outside France.
A spokeswoman for LFI since 2016, she rose to prominence after joining the panel of columnists for Thierry Ardisson’s show Les Terriens du Dimanche. After this, controversy arose, and she, according to her, left LFI so that her on-air time would no longer count as LFI performance time. She then became a columnist for Cyril Hanoun’s show “Balance ton post”.
Elected as a deputy in the 5th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis under the banner of Nupes, she was removed from the leadership of the LFI in December 2022 and criticized Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accusing him of harming the party and its functioning, which would benefit him from a four-month exit from the National Assembly.
Daniel Simonnet
A member of the PS since 1989, Danielle Simonnet left the party in 2008, following Jean-Luc Mélenchon to join the Left Party and become its national secretary. She then participated in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s 2012 presidential campaign and then ran in the 2012 legislative elections in the sixth constituency of Paris. She joined La France insoumise when the party was created in 2016, became national speaker, and was again a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections, where she lost in the second round.
In 2018, she was detained by Turkish authorities at Istanbul airport along with other members of the Left Party for coming to observe Turkey’s general elections. In November 2019, with the support of La France insoumise, she was appointed head of the list along with Vikash Dorasoo in the 18th arrondissement of Paris for the municipal elections.
She is running in the 2022 legislative elections and is elected in the runoff. Having failed to receive reinvestment from LFI, she denounces the “purge” and “sectarian strategy towards partners” on RTL, before assuring that she will still stand in the June 30 elections.
Guillaume Anselet
“We are not going there for the sake of office, we are going there for the sake of the people, for the sake of common interests,” he assured on Thursday on Channel X. Candidate for the fifth constituency of the Somme, president of the Picardy Debut movement! is one of the victims of the night purge. As Mediapart notes, this close friend of François Ruffin, also a physical education teacher in Chaulney (Somme), questioned LFI’s strategy last year.
Frederic Mathieu
The outgoing MP for the 1st constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine, Frédéric Mathieu, was ultimately not nominated by his party La France insoumise. In 2022, he was elected as the candidate of the Nupes Party against the presidential majority candidate Hind Saud. Anyone who began their political career in the Socialist Party naturally considered themselves an after-sales specialist.
His place was eventually taken by Marie Mesmer, who was close to Louis Boyard, according to Le Télégramme. “RN is at the gates of power, and LFI chooses purge and division,” he lamented about the victims of the purge.
Hendrik Davi
Hendrik Davi leaves his post as MP for the 5th district of Bouches-du-Rhône. He is introduced as close to Clementine Autin and is assumed to be “opposing” Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
In an interview with Mediapart this Saturday, after announcing his non-inauguration, he puts forward several possible explanations. Firstly, “strategic differences”, especially during the pension reform, but also regarding the strategy of political unity with the rest of the Nupes. He claims to have also criticized the “sound and fury communications strategy” and very early on called Hamas’s October 7 actions “terrorist.”
According to him, Allan Popelard, sent in his place in his constituency, “is a pure apparatchik.” He leaves himself the opportunity to keep or not keep his candidacy, “depending on his personal situation, depending on his deputy also, also depending on the situation of the left in Marseille, the risk of the PH.” in my circle… I’ll weigh it all. »
Source: Le Parisien
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