Faced with the Block Everything movement, opposition parties are between enthusiasm and mistrust

"What do you think of the September 10th movement? I'll be out in the streets." The appeal comes from a fifty-year-old resident of Socialist MP Arthur Delaporte's constituency in Calvados. The elected official has received dozens of these, if not more. All on Facebook. All about this call to "block the country" launched by a self-proclaimed non-partisan collective, born on social media and close to "yellow vest" circles.

"I also received lists of demands... And it often resembles what we can defend," says the Norman parliamentarian who says he is keeping an eye on the matter: "we must never neglect weak signals. Some videos on September 10 have thousands and thousands of views."

Because the left, from the Socialist Party to La France Insoumise (LFI), doesn't want to miss the boat this time. During the "yellow vest" movement, which emerged in 2018, with its demands for tax justice and direct democracy, the left never really managed to unite, dithering over its support and worrying about the infiltration of far-right movements. "Part of the left held its nose at the 'yellow vests'. I hope that some will not repeat this class condescension," warns LFI MP for Loire-Atlantique Matthias Tavel. "Our role will be to support and relay this September 10 movement, so that popular censure and parliamentary censure can feed off each other."

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