Around forty elected officials from the left and environmentalists, including the leader of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, the environmentalist Yannick Jadot and the MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (Place publique), called, Saturday April 18, to build a “credible and mobilizing project” to block the National Rally (RN) during the next presidential election, scheduled for 2027.
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Alarmed by an “unprecedented breakthrough by the extreme right” in the municipal elections, these parliamentarians and local elected officials believe that the left and environmentalists are “retreating dramatically in rural and peri-urban territories”, in a column published on a new site, Construire2027.fr, and relayed by several press titles, including Ouest-France, La Dépêche, Sud-Ouest and Le Télégramme.
“Whole sections of our elites are resigning themselves and preparing for the announced shift of France into the Trumpist and Putinist camp,” worry the first signatories of this text, which must be open for online signatures in the evening. “We are not resigning ourselves to the victory of the National Rally in 2027. (…) We want to win now. »
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Among them are also socialist executives, such as the president of the socialist group in the Senate, Patrick Kanner, and internal opponents of the first secretary, Olivier Faure, such as the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, and the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, but also several mayors and other local elected officials, as well as some environmentalist, communist or Public Place parliamentarians.
“A project with a majority vocation”
While the left, excluding La France insoumise, is currently divided over the method of nominating a presidential candidate, they call for “opposing the far right with hope for the country, a credible and mobilizing project”.
For them, “moral condemnations, historical comparisons with the 1930s and rapprochements with Trump’s America, Orban’s Hungary (…) or Putin’s Russia, as relevant and worrying as they may be, are no longer enough.”
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In their appeal, they judge that only the construction of “a project with a majority vocation” and the “team which will implement it” will allow the emergence of the “candidacy of a large gathering” for the presidential election, without commenting on the method of nomination.
On Friday, the leader of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, sent a letter to the other left-wing parties, excluding LFI, to suggest that they create a “shared” programmatic “base”. The fact remains that the desire for candidacy is increasing on the left – on Saturday, former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced in Paris the names of the members of his future “political committee”.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
