Differences in opinion and repeated outbursts by Jean

The elected official from Gironde, who was one of the first 17 LFI elected officials to arrive at the National Assembly in 2017, announced on Wednesday, April 1st that he was leaving the movement “not without bitterness, but without regret.”

Gironde deputy Loïc Prud’homme announced that he was leaving La France insoumise due to “differences in the assessment of the strategy deployed since 2022” by the radical left formation, of which he will remain an apparent member in the Assembly, he explained on Wednesday, April 1st to AFP.

“Today, I am leaving the movement, not without bitterness, but without regret,” wrote the deputy, who was one of the first 17 LFI elected officials to arrive at the National Assembly in 2017, in a message addressed last week to his fellow activists in Gironde and revealed by L’Opinion.

“I have never hidden my differences in assessing the strategy deployed since 2022 or my opinion on the latest outbursts of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, including the most recent,” he explained. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been criticized, in particular, for his comments on the pronunciation of Jewish surnames.

“Besides the fact that it seems to me to be detrimental to promoting our ideas to the level where they should be today, I note that this undermines the grassroots activist work,” adds the elected official, who was a candidate in the municipal elections in Bègles (Gironde), where he came in third.

The deputy remains “apparent” LFI at the Bouron Palace

Loïc Prud’homme, reportedly close to former insubordinate François Ruffin, said he had “tried to raise this alert internally, obviously without success.” But he added that he was not “fooled by the violent and repeated attacks against LFI from all the watchdogs of the prevailing ultra-liberalism.”

He will continue to sit within the insubordinate group, where he “remains apparent,” he clarified to AFP.

Loic Prud’homme had worked, for the municipal elections in Bègles, “on a common program with the outgoing green mayor” to keep the city under left-wing control, as noted by Raquel Garrido on X, denouncing the divisions that allowed the right to take over the municipality.

Initially, she criticized the strategic line of “division” of LFI and the Girondin PS which had prevented any alliance in the first round, before specifying in a later message that the lack of merger was mainly due to the “sectarianism of the local PS.”