In a statement, the participants argued from the climate emergency to justify their action, which must begin Friday morning, in Paris, after a press conference.
Le Monde
Twelve activists, including MEP Pierre Larouturou, announced in a statement, Thursday, January 6, wanting to start a hunger strike from Friday. The collective plans to exhort the left to designate a common candidate for the presidential election, through the departure process proposed by the popular primary.
In addition to Mr. Larroutur, who is a candidate for the presidential election in the context of the popular primary, and Anne Hessel, daughter of the diplomat and human rights defender Stéphane Hessel, appear in particular in the signatories of the statement. Ecologist Pierre Monnier and seven activists who present themselves as “young people of the climate generation”.
Elected MP in 2019, Mr. Larrouturou had already led a hunger strike in 2020 to ask “a real tax on financial transactions”. In 2013, the founder of the New Party was also launched a four-day hunger strike to the National Assembly to alert elected officials on “the gravity of the social and economic crisis”.
left. , the “divisions make all impossible victory”
“It is obvious for the whole scientific community that lose five years in the climate battle would be irrecoverable,” explain the twelve activists in their communiqué to justify their action. “Emmanuel Macron, not only did anything effective in France to fight against climate change, but it slows the European action,” they believe before considering that “only the candidates on the left and the left Ecology are aware of the climate urgency and wear solutions up to the stakes “.
“But their divisions make any impossible victory”, then pursue the activists, who consider that an alliance between the candidates declared on the left can still end before the “mid-February” and play an important role in the end of the presidential campaign. “It’s not just a missed election, but the fate of our humanity,” they write. A press conference must be organized on Friday, January 7, in Paris, to start their hunger strike.
The popular primary pilot a “popular investiture”, namely a vote of some 300,000 signatories, scheduled for 27 to 30 January, to designate a candidate. Christiane Taubira, who “plans” an application, and the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo have mentioned him as a possible way to decide between the five main nominations on the left. The ecologist Yannick Jadot, the “insemble” Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Communist Fabien Roussel have so far firmly dismissed from committing it.