after Mélenchon, it is the turn of Tondelier and Castets to call for a “common candidacy” from the left

after Mélenchon, it is the turn of Tondelier and Castets to call for a “common candidacy” from the left
after Mélenchon, it is the turn of Tondelier and Castets to call for a “common candidacy” from the left

Lucie Castets (left) and Marine Tondelier, in , northern , July 27, 2024. A HARSIN/KICK

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The head of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier and Lucie Castets, candidate in Matignon for the New Popular Front (NFP) last summer, called on Saturday November 30 for a “joint application” of the left in the next presidential election, the day after an intervention on the same theme by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“We must now organize ourselves to obtain a majority in Parliament and win the next presidential election”affirm the two signatories of a column posted online on the website of the newspaper “Ouest-France”. “We believe that each victory is a team story and that urgency requires us to be able to come together around our convergences”they emphasize.

They announce the creation of the site « gagnons-ensemble.fr » which should serve as “framework for reflection and common actions, in order to win the cultural battle against the right and the extreme right”.

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The two signatories set what they present as a prerequisite: “wish for a joint candidacy for the next presidential election, without placing this or that name as a prerequisite for collective work”.

Mélenchon wants union without the communists and “the right of the PS”

This position taken by Marine Tondelier and Lucie Castet 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 on Friday to those who want to unite with La France insoumise (LFI) to wear “a joint application” on the basis of its program in the event of an early presidential election.

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“We are in favor of a joint candidacy. We said it to each other ten times, based on the program. And as we go with the program, well, come whoever wants, they are welcome”launched the leader of LFI who wants the resignation of Emmanuel Macron, and thus hopes for the organization of an early presidential election.

The leader, already a presidential candidate three times, proposed a “federal offer” has “those who want” join LFI to “to run a joint candidacy for the presidential election”. He excluded the Communist Party from his approach and “the right of the Socialist Party” car “we refuse to make our way with people who insult us along the way”.

By Le Nouvel Obs with AFP

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