Let no one impose their candidate. The leader of the ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and Lucie Castets, candidate in Matignon for the New Popular Front last summer, launched a platform in Ouest-France and in an interview with the Tribune Dimanche, an appeal to their allies to a joint left-wing candidacy for the presidential election with one condition.
An outing which comes the day after a declaration by Jean-Luc Mélenchon which did not go unnoticed as it resembles an offer of services. The leader of the radical left proposed, Friday, to those who want to unite with La France insoumise to put forward “a common candidacy” on the basis of his program in the event of an early presidential election in the event of government censorship Barnier. The leader, already a presidential candidate three times, proposed a “federal offer” to “those who want” to join LFI to “run a common candidacy for the presidential election”. But he excluded the Communist Party and “the right of the Socialist Party” from his approach because “we refuse to go along with people who insult us along the way”.
For Marine Tondelier and Lucie Castets, the approach is different. “We must now organize ourselves to obtain a majority in Parliament and win the next presidential election,” affirm the two signatories, adding “We believe that each victory is a team story and that urgency requires us to be capable to come together around our convergences,” they emphasize.
And added: “The only prerequisite is not to leave with just one name in mind, not to have your candidate or your team, to start working. Otherwise, we have already lost.” Before specifying: “Our call is not a competing initiative with the NFP but aims to broaden it, extend it, anchor it. We must strengthen its ability to win the next presidential election and to face all the challenges that will undoubtedly arise for us in the weeks and months to come.”
According to them, everything is at stake now. “From now on, we must organize ourselves and build a common project for the entire left, the forces of progress and ecologists. An ambitious and solid project, anchored in daily concerns, which responds to the concrete expectations expressed so many times over the years by millions of French people.”
They announced the creation of the site “gainnons-ensemble.fr” which should serve as a “framework for reflection and common actions, in order to win the cultural battle against the right and the extreme right”. “We want to bring together as widely as possible civil society, associations, emerging political movements, existing parties, but also local elected officials, students, business leaders, etc. We must give the New Popular Front new momentum and space,” they emphasize.
