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“Libé” returns to meet the French who made the news in our columns to talk about the presidential election. Today, Ludovic Tolassy, spokesperson for the citizen movement Moun Gwadloup, disappointed with the lack of consideration of the political class for his archipelago.
Presidential candidates, Ludovic Tolassy has seen a parade. Every five years, a few months before the election, the delegations follow one another on his island. Trips rarely last more than twenty-four hours, watch in hand, enough time to sunbathe, shake hands and utter a few banalities about the West Indies and the overseas territories. Before getting back on the plane. “These are just small tourist tours”, he scoffs, which do not allow anything “to hear the problems of Guadeloupeans”. “If you really want to understand Guadeloupe, you have to come here for two or three weeks and meet people without being surrounded by journalists and communicators.”
The previous episode of our series “Their say”
When we met Ludovic Tolassy one morning in November, the atmosphere was not one of visits from political delegations. Guadeloupe was at the time paralyzed by a protest movement, first starting from a denunciation of the vaccination obligation for caregivers, before extending little by little to …