A future “big bang” within La France insoumise? In a lengthy blog post published this Sunday, Tremblay MP Clémentine Autain launches “a debate on the transformation of the movement” and calls on her comrades to “cross the course to win”.
“LFI has had the merit of testing practices that break with the functioning of traditional parties,” explains the elected rebel, describing the movement’s form of organization as “gaseous.”
“More flexible, action-oriented, very offensive on social networks, free from the internal battles of Congress, our movement has managed to embrace some of the demands of our time. (…) If we look at the balance, it is clear that LFI has conquered a leadership on the left and has been able to go from 17 to 75 deputies”, recognizes Clémentine Autain.
LFI “relies in fact on a small core of leaders”
But it’s time for self-criticism. “The decision-making places are still unclear, the space for strategic debate is not identified, the partition between the local and the national deserves to be redefined,” launches the elected.
“Loose forms also have serious flaws”, summarizes Clémentine Autain, lamenting that LFI “is in fact based on a small nucleus of leaders”.
“Without a clear identification of the decision-making processes, the gaseous disorients and makes it easy to prove the legitimacy of the decisions made, even if the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ‘cornerstone’ of LFI, has so far played an important role a role of legitimation”, he also advances.
“Keeping pluralism alive”
The deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, who in 2019 launched the idea of a “big bang of the left”, makes several proposals for the future of La France insoumise. “We need to have hundreds of executives throughout the territory,” says Clémentine Autain. But “seeing bigger, broader, means giving life to pluralism,” she warns.
“The diversity of points of view must be able to express itself”, warns the elected, who believes that, “at all levels”, La France insoumise “must be a place for programmatic and strategic reflection”.
“Rethinking Places of Decision Making”
Clémentine Autain therefore proposes a collegiate leadership at the head of the movement, whose coordinator is currently the Northern deputy Adrien Quatennens. This future collegiate leadership “could combine three levels of legitimacy: elected officials, Action Groups, social and cultural movement forces.”
At several points, the deputy invites her colleagues to approach an organization close to those of the traditional parties (contributions -which would be voluntary-, development of municipal and departmental unions, more executives, etc.).
Finally, it advocates maintaining and strengthening the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, a coalition formed by the LFI with the PS, EELV and the PCF during the legislative elections. “The more production spaces we have in common, the more connected and stronger we will be”, believes Clémentine Autain.
Source: BFM TV
