Less than a day after the final results came in, La France Insoumise (LFI) Clémentine Autain dropped an unexpectedly scorching critique of her own party.

Interviewed in the liberal L’Obs magazine after the left-populist movement finished with just 6.3 percent of the vote in France’s elections to European Parliament — well behind President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist La République en Marche, Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National, but also the Greens — the parliamentarian slammed a lack of “internal democracy” within her party and called into question its political strategy.

LFI, Autain said, had mistakenly ignored calls to overhaul its structure — a reference to its lack of elected leadership. In her view, it had also misjudged the mood of the French electorate, opting for a politics of “resentment” and betting on an escalating “clash” with Macron instead of building a more positive alternative with potential allies.