The mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, during the first major campaign meeting of Anne Hidalgo for the presidential election, on October 23, 2021 in Lille (AFP / THOMAS LO PRESTI)
More than 1,500 local elected officials on the left, including the support of the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo like Martine Aubry or Carole Delga, call for a single candidacy on the left via the organization of an open primary, in a forum published on Sunday by the JDD.
“We support the initiative to organize an open, citizen and popular primary, to restore desire, recreate hope and designate the candidate who will win the social and ecological Republic in 2022”, declare these elected officials who want the left “to come together to govern together as we do in our territories”.
“The autumn has passed and no candidate, no candidate has demonstrated that he could do without the rally,” note these elected officials in the face of polls which place left-wing candidates far from access to the second round .
“Worse, the absence of positive outlets leads to the gradual flight of a significant part of those who planned to vote on the left,” they believe.
Among the signatories, socialists at the head of large communities: the mayors of Lille Martine Aubry, Nantes Johanna Rolland and Rennes Nathalie Appéré, the president of Midi-Pyrénées Carole Delga, or even Stéphane Troussel, president of Seine-Saint-Denis where went on Saturday Chritiane Taubira who “plans” to be a candidate and tweeted the platform.
An initial list published on Saturday evening did not include all of these names, with signatories added on Sunday.
The environmental candidate for the presidential election Yannick Jadot, in Paris, on December 8, 2021 (AFP / JULIEN DE ROSA)
Also appears the EELV adviser of Paris Jérôme Gleizes, support of the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, who refused to join a primary of the left advanced by Anne Hidalgo and called for the “rally” behind his own project.
On Wednesday, Yannick Jadot said he regretted that Anne Hidalgo did not seize his “outstretched hand” offered the day before during a telephone interview.
On Friday, the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira burst into the campaign, four months from the first round, saying “consider” being a candidate and ensuring that he wants to “put all (his) strength into the last chances of the union “on the left.
“The left, dispersed like a puzzle, despairs those who expect solutions from it”, write the signatories of the platform who advocate a gathering of “parties of the ecological left” and “dynamic citizens”.
“These fruitful gatherings can take place on a national scale”, affirm those for whom “there is no inevitability” and “there is still time to act, to envisage the victory, rather than anticipate the defeat”.
“We do not want candidates for testimony, we want to win next April to provide concrete solutions,” say local elected officials.
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