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This Wednesday, at the Toulouse city council, the municipal opposition attacked Jean-Luc Moudenc, accusing him of remaining silent with regard to the National Rally. The mayor, in response, spoke of the “deceptions” of the RN and invited Jordan Bardella’s voters to “think”.
On the eve of the first round of legislative elections, the confusing political situation in the country caused tensions this Wednesday in the Toulouse municipal council. During the introductory remarks, Antoine Maurice, president of the group of elected environmentalists, was the first to implicate Jean-Luc Moudenc who “refuses to condemn the extreme right” and who, in the past, “maintained the confusion” with its accusations about “the totalitarian Nupes” and “ecoterrorists”. The attack was taken up for the Socialist Party by Vincent Gibert who invited the mayor to “change” to say “clearly: not one vote for the RN. »
Then the temperature rose a notch with Agathe Roby (LFI), stung by accusations of anti-Semitism against the Insoumis. “A false trial,” she said, referring to “the people here who are playing with fire.” For the opposition elected official, candidate for the legislative elections in the 3rd constituency, the New Popular Front and the National Rally, “it’s not white hat and white hat! »
Potential candidate for the Capitol in 2026, Agathe Roby ended with a warning: “We are going to give the far right and Macronie a leg up. And I hope that all Toulouse deputies will be New Popular Front. This will get you used to the alternation in 2026.”
The RN “totally inexperienced”
For the majority, Pierre Esplugas relaunched the accusation, citing Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his “residual anti-Semitism” and the “police (which) kill” of Philippe Poutou. Then his attack on Carole Delga, accused of having “sold her soul”, made François Briançon come off his hinges. “Unworthy!” Ashamed ! » the socialist exclaimed as he stood up.
If he signed a column inviting us to say no to the extremes, Jean-Luc Moudenc, for the first time, explicitly warned Toulouse residents against the extreme right. “I am worried that the country could be governed by a totally inexperienced person, who proposes a vague, changing and ruinous program. » To RN voters, he assured “he could hear their anger. But I can’t agree with them. I hope they will think about it. »
The mayor also qualified the attacks against the so-called government left by affirming that he was not putting an equal sign between PS, PC and ecologists on one side and Insoumis on the other, but by regretting “a submission of the PS to the Insubordinate.”
