The campaign for the legislative elections passed Thursday June 13 through the benches of the regional council. A debate in which we talked about xenophobia, a dish of lentils and General de Gaulle.
Could it be otherwise? The earthquake of the European elections and the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly shook the regional council on Thursday during its plenary session.
“We are at a tipping point, we have to be up to the task,” introduced Jean Dionis from Séjour (Modem). A mayor of Agen who very quickly descended into the political arena to scratch a “Popular Front which will not survive the winter” and denounce “hatred of foreigners” within the National Rally. “Nationalism is war,” he warned, citing “Jean Jaurès, François Mitterrand and Emmanuel Macron.”
“A tidal wave” for the RN
“Who can believe that the extreme right will be a solution?” asks environmentalist Stéphane Trifiletti. Because here in the region, like everywhere else, they campaign against the rights of women, of minorities, (…) because they refuse territorial policies aimed at reducing fractures and inequalities, because they designate goats constantly emissaries, into fanatic supporters of xenophobia. »
“Hateful remarks with hints of defeat,” describes the National Rally, which boasts of having come in first on Sunday in all the departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and in 95% of the municipalities. “A tidal wave”, according to Edwige Diaz (RN), before addressing President Alain Rousset (PS): “The left has once again sold itself for a plate of lentils to the far left”, declares she, targeting the “haters” of La France insoumise and the NPA which she renamed “New Anti-Semitic Party”. “What an indignity, I cannot believe that you can support this charade,” she continues towards Alain Rousset.
Workers’ vote
A percentage remains across Alain Rousset’s throat. “42% of workers voted for you? », he continues, then mentioning the change of heart of the far-right party in recent days on the retirement age. “Smelling the aroma of power, which I hope you will not have, you are already abandoning your social measures,” he says.
Earlier in the week, Alain Rousset told journalists that he had expressed his incomprehension about the dissolution of the Assembly to Emmanuel Macron, during the commemorations in Oradour-sur-Glane. “He is very happy with his shot and very confident,” he told me. It takes a shock. » Alain Rousset will get involved in the campaign, but without supporting all the left-wing candidates, he said.
Attacked by the Macronists on the lack of clarity in the Popular Front program, Alain Rousset defends his camp. “But you are waiting for the press conference of the President of the Republic to know the political program, there is no discussion,” he retorts.
The RN and the depths of the Creuse
Guillaume Guérin (LR) goes back in time and recalls the errors common to the left and the right. “Why do we vote for the National Rally in the depths of Creuse? It’s not an immigration problem, there isn’t one, it’s because there is no longer a post office, no more doctors,” he says.
Like the far-right elected official, the president of Limoges metropolis stigmatizes the rapprochement between the social democrats and socialists on the one hand with La France insoumise and the New Anticapitalist Party on the other. A final charge which forces President Alain Rousset to invoke history. “In 1944, De Gaulle made an alliance with the communists, who were the Insoumis of today. »
The president of the Republicans in Haute-Vienne Guillaume Guérin wants to propose “central” candidates positioned between the RN and the NUPES
Guillaume Bellavoine
