Lefts in the legislative
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Rebellious, environmentalists, socialists and communists sealed the birth of the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union in view of the legislative elections during a national convention in Aubervilliers, in Seine-Saint-Denis, placed under the sign of “the rupture”.
How to say ? Saturday, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), a strange thing played out before our eyes: heads that had been looking at each other out of the corner of their eyes for ages found themselves in the same room and under the same flag. The lefts have officially made a fuss. Sorry ! We no longer say the lefts but The new popular ecological and social union (the Nupes) which displays a red, green, mauve and pink “V” which means “victory” but which is also the Greek letter “Nu”, evoking the beginning of the acronym and which can be done with the fingers. Result: the candidates for the legislative elections strolled through Aubervilliers making “V”s. Everything is mixed up. We don’t really know who belongs to which family.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was one of the first to speak. He got plenty of applause – a little less than the rebellious Manuel Bompard, Mathilde Panot and Adrien Quatennens, but it wasn’t bad. It starts like this: “They told me, be careful, they’re savages, but who are the real savages in the country?” Answer: the ruling camp. “I have chosen”, he continues before this admission, five years after the great upheaval caused by Emmanuel Macron: “I thought we could go a long way together, I admit it. …