Presidential 2022: more than 1,500 elected calls to union of left

A tribune, published in “Sunday Journal”, particularly signed by supports of the PS candidate, Anne Hidalgo, like Martine Aubry or Carole Delga.

Le Monde

An absent time of the debate, the idea of a union of the left is strongly returning to the presidential campaign. In A tribune published in the Sunday log , more than 1,500 local elected officials call on a single left application, through an open primer. This tribune, published Sunday, December 19, particularly signed by supports of the PS candidate, Anne Hidalgo, like Martine Aubry or Carole Delga.

“We support the initiative to organize an open, citizen and popular primary, to restore the envy, recreate hope and designate the candidate who will win the Social and Ecological Republic in 2022”, declare these elected officials who want the left “gathers to govern together as we do in our territories”.

“Autumn has passed and no candidate, no candidate has demonstrated that he could save the rally”, find these elected officials against the surveys that place the candidates of the left away from access In the second round.

“Worse, the absence of positive opportunities leads to the gradual flight on a significant part of those who planned to vote on the left.”

“Still time to act”

Among the signatories, socialists at the head of great communities: the mayors of Lille (Martine Aubry), Nantes (Johanna Rolland) and Rennes (Nathalie Renea), the President of the Occitanie Region, Carole Delga, or Stéphane Trousel, President of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis. It was on Saturday Christiane Taubira who “plans” to be a candidate and tweeted the tribune.

Figure also the Paris Jérôme GEIZES EELV advisor, support of the Candidate Ecologist Yannick Jadot – who refused to rally to a primary of the left advanced by Anne Hidalgo, calling for the “gathering” behind his own project. Wednesday, Yannick Jadot said that Anne Hidalgo did not enter his “hand outstretched” proposed the day before at a telephone interview.

Friday, the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira broke into the campaign, four months of the first round, saying “Consider” to be a candidate and assuring “put all [his] forces in the last chances of the union “on the left.

“The left, dispersed way puzzle, despairs those who are waiting for her solutions”, write the signatories of the platform who advocate a gathering of the “parties of the Left Ecologist” and “citizen dynamics”.

“These fertile gatherings can occur at the national level,” say those for whom “there is no fatality” and “there is still time to act, to consider victory, rather than ‘Anticipate the defeat “. “We do not want testimony nominations, we want to win next April to provide concrete solutions,” says signatory local elected officials.

/Media reports.