It’s the stupidest left in the world, Guy Mollet, the inventor of this murderous formula applied to the right in the mid-1950s, could have said. A left whose divisions and local ambitions probably lead to letting a constituency slip away. important in the battle against the National Rally (RN), during the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. In a national election where each deputy position will count on the evening of the second round, in particular to know if the RN will manage to obtain an absolute majority, the 3e Oise constituency could represent a hope of conquest for the left.
This required a political miracle, of course. That the popular neighborhoods of Creil, strongly abstaining, mobilize en masse and counterbalance the vote in favor of the RN of the rural communes of the south of Oise, where the extreme right obtained very high scores during the European elections. From a strictly arithmetic point of view, this seemed difficult but not impossible. In 2022, the RN candidate, Alexandre Sabatou, was elected with 1,300 votes ahead of the candidate of the New Ecological and Social Popular Union, thanks to a massive abstention in the sensitive cities of Creil and Montataire, two solid bastions of the left for decades.
“This constituency was winnable. Of course, the RN came out on top in the European elections, but with a lightning campaign, we could have gained reserves of votes. The problem is the choice of candidate by La France insoumise (LFI)”gets annoyed the socialist mayor of Creil, Jean-Claude Villemain, who would have liked his first deputy, Sophie Lehner, to go into battle. However, LFI chose a different candidate within the framework of the national agreement of the New Popular Front (NFP): Amadou Ka, 44 years old, educator in the judicial protection of young people, opposition municipal councilor in Creil. Consequence of this disagreement: the mayor of Creil, an elephant of the Socialist Party (PS) of Oise, as he himself says, decided not to campaign for the left against the outgoing RN deputy. ” I am on holiday “he repeats in his office as president of the urban community, a way of saying that he refuses to take any militant action in favor of the NFP candidate.
They are “preparing for the municipal elections”
Some of the local LFI activists also chose not to get involved in the battle. For similar reasons: first, the rejection of a candidate they claim to barely know. “In this story, they are not trying to block the RN. Those who put forward Amadou Ka are preparing for the municipal elections of 2026”believes Valérie Richard, one of the leaders of the “insoumis” movement in the urban area. The criticism also concerns the strategy followed by the promoters of the NFP candidate: “They made an additional mistake: betting everything on the town of Creil, very left-wing but with a high abstention rate, while the election will also be played out in the rural area with voters for whom LFI and the RN are the same thing.”laments Sophie Lehner, the first PS deputy mayor of Creil.
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