For Raquel Garrido, "Mélenchon must be put out of harm's way"

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The rebels and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are in turmoil. With the release of the investigative book "La Meute" (The Pack) on the leader of LFI and his brutal methods , tongues continue to loosen. Particularly among the former Mélenchonists purged in 2024, like Raquel Garrido. This former long-time close associate of Mélenchon before being ostracized no longer minces her words and no longer holds back.

Should the three-time presidential candidate be excluded from La France Insoumise, as Jean-Marie Le Pen was in his time with the National Front? "Yes," the woman who lost her seat as a member of parliament last summer to the LFI candidate who remained in line with the leader responded bluntly on BFMTV . For Jean-Luc Mélenchon's former spokesperson and lawyer, "this has to stop" : "Mélenchon must be prevented from harming LFI and the NFP with his little words that do not represent LFI." These words are of rare violence, revealing a deep divide.

One of the founders of L'Après, the party founded by those purged from LFI , now considers her former mentor as "a very serious handicap" for the left and for the possibility of a victory in 2027. "If he persists in wanting to fracture the left and make himself unapproachable to the rest of the NFP people, then we will lose," she castigates. But Raquel Garrido maintains an almost irrational optimism: she still hopes and believes that Jean-Luc Mélenchon could renounce a fourth candidacy for the Élysée if he realizes that he is participating in the announced defeat of the left. Hope springs eternal, they say.