Former Ford worker failed to miss the bar of 500 sponsorships, but there will be two Trotskyist applications this year, as in 2017.
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The French tradition of multiple Trotskyist applications, uninterrupted since 2002, will be respected again this year. At the nomination of Nathalie Arthaud, for the Wormer (LO), who obtained early, mid-February, his 500 sponsorships, added, Monday, March 7, that of Philippe Poutou , from the new anticapitalist (NPA), with 596 signatures. They will therefore be part of the twelve candidates in the running. One more than in 2017, with, in detail, six postulants on the left, six on the right, eight men, four women. Trotskyist side, both are in their third campaign, but for the former Ford Blanquefort worker, that one will have narrowly torn, by last-minute militant efforts but also help from other left-wing parties.
A time worried about his own candidacy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon finally gave Mr. Poutou his own sponsorship, while some ecologists, socialists, as Julien Dray, demanded that he be able to compete. Philippe Poutou welcomes, in addition to the effort of activists, these gestures of solidarity. “We must recognize, and we thank them, we received support and mutual assistance from militants from other organizations on the left, even elected officials who have made our presence in this election, fearing Let us go the checkout, “he said. “We have the feeling of having done a feat again by passing through the meshes of an undemocratic net.”
A good news also for Lo. “I’m delighted,” reacted, Monday, Nathalie Arthaud, the more revolutionaries are, the better. “However, the worker’s fight maintains his distinction. The workers’ party has counted on any external support. “We have never worked by counting on either. It is our political principle,” workers do not count on ourselves “, it’s true for everything,” says the candidate. If she got early her sponsorships, she said, it’s because the activists ask mayors who commit to returning to their forms as soon as possible, “so as to be able to return in case of difficulties”.
Philippe Poutou, this year, did not have this luxury. Crillosity of the elected or competition of the dissenting candidature of Anasse Kazib which brought together 160 sponsorships, the anticapitalist candidate had fallen behind 2017. “The different currents of the left do not really interest what we are absent: The application of Philippe Poutou pulls the whole political chessboard to the left, says what others do not say, with his breaking profile that slides with the debate of the V e Republic ” , argued the national team of NPA signatures, at the end of February in the party weekly, the anticapitalist. Stayed on the tile but determined to persevere in the political landscape, the pathot Anaster Kazib and its permanent revolution movement should call to support the two Trotskyist candidates in the presidential election.
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