The two left-wing women Lucie Castets and Marine Tondelier have launched an appeal and a website with a view to a joint left-wing candidacy for the 2027 presidential election.
Two and a half years before the 2027 presidential election, senior civil servant Lucie Castets and national secretary of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier decided to launch a website – gagnons-ensemble.fr – in the hope of uniting the left around a common candidacy in view of the next elections.
In a joint interview given to the newspaper Ouest France this Saturday, November 30, the two female politicians call on the left to unite around an “ambitious and solid project, anchored in daily concerns”, without however “placing this or that name as a prerequisite for collective work”.
“Let’s not give them this gift”
“Every quarrel within our own camp is an offering made to our adversaries. Let's not give them this gift”, declare Lucie Castets and Marine Tondelier in this interview, pointing the finger at the extreme right “while everywhere populist speeches are gaining ground.
The two political figures also underline the “urgency” of the political moment: “We no longer have time to waste. (…) We believe that each victory is a team story, and that urgency requires us to be able to bring ourselves together around our convergences.”
According to them, this call for unification aims to “respond to democratic, ecological and social challenges”: “So that our parents are properly cared for, so that our children grow up on a habitable planet, so that each and every one can live decently of his salary, so that our public freedoms are respected and that France can remain proud of its motto.”
In recent days, the left has denounced Michel Barnier's “concessions” at the National Rally, while the head of government made a series of announcements demanded by the RN this Thursday, November 28 in the face of the threat of censorship.
Jeanne Bulant Journalist BFMTV
France
