The spectrum of Florange haunts the union of the left – Liberation

A few hours before in Paris, socialist elected officials were targeted in the May 1 parade, an almost united left was appeared in Dunkirk in support of ArcelorMittal employees. Several hundred people were gathered at the CGT call to protest Against the deletion plan of around 600 posts announced by the steel giant In its northern and eastern sites of France, including a majority in the port city. Among the demonstrators: Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Marine Tondelier, the National Secretary of Ecologists, Fabien Roussel, the leader of the Communist Party or the deputies of the ecological group François Ruffin and Benjamin Lucas, all to demand state intervention.

This common mobilization comes at a time when the proponents of the rally are trying to build a unitary path. After a call for the organization of a primary launched by Lucie Castets in Releasea Harris Interactive survey published by the left review Glance came to reinforce the uniters by showing that Gathered, the left could arrive in the second round.

« It is a left united on the bottom », welcomed François Ruffin in Dunkirk. With one exception: no rebellious is among the signatories of the common press release published on April 30. The president of the Economic Affairs Committee Aurélie found, the deputies Aurélien Le Coq and Gabrielle Cathala were present in the procession, but the movement had not been associated with the process. « It was published without having offered us », reacted Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of France rebellious.

For several weeks, François Ruffin, Marine Tondelier and Fabien Roussel, all elected in Hauts-de-France, have followed the file. The National Secretary of Ecologists, who militates for a broad union and is in constant contact with Olivier Faure, had spoken of it with her socialist counterpart. A few days before the demonstration, the deputy for the Somme therefore offered his partners to co -register a press release that he proposed to write. « He told me that he did not know that the rebellious would come, says one of the signatories. Myself, I saw that Aurélie found came the previous evening. ” Since the dissolution and brutal eviction of rebellious figures during the legislative elections of 2024, the founder of Fakir And the rebellious management no longer has any contact, if not attacks by interposed media. Marine Tondelier, who militates for a large union of the left, going to the rebellious, is annoyed: « I find it exhausting, we are there for employees and we find ourselves talking about the scope of the press release, it’s indecent. »

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s troops, for their part, took the opportunity to mark their difference with the rest of the left, and in particular the socialists, brought back to Holland. « Will Macron betray Dunkirk as Sarkozy betrayed Gandrange, as Hollande trahi Florange? » questioned Aurélie found.

THE Trauma Florange is still alive, perceived as the manifestation of the PS renunciations. On February 24, 2012, François Hollande, presidential candidate perched on the roof of a van, had promised the employees of ArcelorMittal in the fight against the closure of the Florange Hauts-Fourneaux only once elected, he would have a law to force Mittal to keep his two loudspeakers, or to sell all of his valley factories. A year later, the fate of the stove highs was sealed, and Arnaud Montebourg, then Minister of Productive Recovery who had pleaded for a temporary nationalization, lost the Elysian arbitration. His special advisor was then called Boris Vallaud, who would then join François Hollande as secretary general of the Elysée. Today he chairs the socialist group in the National Assembly and plans to appear against Olivier Faure to take the lead. Thursday, François Ruffin, who continued to denounce the socialists, was alongside Vallaud and Faure. A sign of their rehabilitation?