“For the first time since the Liberation, the extreme right is today at the gates of power.
The Gers, land of Resistance, which fought vigorously 80 years ago to fight the occupier and its far-right collaborator allies, could elect National Rally deputies.
The President of the Republic and his supporters bear, through the policy of division that they have pursued, a heavy responsibility for this situation.
The National Rally, joined by a section of the right that now assumes the abandonment of the common core of republican values, embodies a project synonymous with social violence, ever greater inequality and exclusion, the dismantling of our public services, the decline of women’s rights, and the denial of climate change and its effects.
Faced with this danger, the left-wing forces, political, trade union and associative, have come together responsibly to achieve the creation of the New Popular Front.
This approach to unity embodies hope for our country, a hope for equality and social justice, for the defense of purchasing power, for adaptation to climate change while preserving the rights of everyone.
Supporting this union of the left does not mean denying one’s convictions, it means rising to the challenge of the next legislative elections, by following in the footsteps of the great names in social, republican and political history. humanist of our country.
I therefore call on all citizens, all the active forces of civil society, to commit themselves alongside the New Popular Front to fight the extreme right and collectively offer a prospect of hope to the middle and popular people of our country.
Christian Laprébende, mayor of Auch
