01 JUL 2024 – 13:25h
Associations, parties and unions are calling for a rally against the far right, the day after the first round of legislative elections.
The day after the first round of the legislative elections, the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) and EH Bai are calling for a rally on Monday, July 1 at 7 p.m., at Bayonne town hall, “to provide a clear anti-fascist and popular response to the brown plague.”
These parties warn of the “risk” of the National Rally coming to power. Faced with this possibility, the NPA stresses the need to set up “the most massive street mobilizations and demonstrations possible.”
Increase in racist, sexist and homophobic attacks
The results of June 30 are “very worrying” for the left-wing party. The score of the extreme right was exceeded “including in the Basque Country” compared to the European elections, warns the anti-capitalist movement. In the press release sent on the evening of the results of the first round, it anticipated a resurgence of “racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or attacks against left-wing activists” during the last weeks in France which risk increasing further.
The NPA calls for strengthening a “solid bloc of social and political lefts to resist” by voting in the second round in favour of the New Popular Front supported in the Basque Country by the candidates of Peio Dufau, Colette Capdevielle and Inaki Echaniz.
The Bayonne rally is supported by the anti-fascist movement, Sare antifaxista and the unions LAB and Solidaire 64.
