For the election of June 12 and 19, rebellious France ensures that it has ensured parity and diversity. But the inauguration of several personalities without real local anchoring annoys and gives rise to illegitimacy trials.
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“Parachuting”, the expression returns to each legislative election. But it would be almost a big word to rebellious France (LFI). Five years ago, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate in Marseille, said it: “I am everywhere at home on national territory.” For the native of Tangier (Morocco), former candidate for Hénin-Beaumont (not -D-Calais) against Marine Le Pen, the legislative elections have always been national before being local, and there has never been a question of prohibiting a constituency for lack of having lived there. Even at a time when questions of representation gain visibility, this creed continues.
Thursday, May 12 in the evening, the deputy of the Bouches-du-Rhône therefore passed the hand without blinking to Manuel Bompard, European deputy and director of his presidential campaign. This gold riding district, where the candidate of the People’s Union exceeded 50 % in the first round of the presidential election in several districts, had already seen the appetites to strive. But Marseille policy is often disconcerting for those who discover it. “Manuel will not be happy”, predicted, before this formalization, a local elected official … The campaign director kept smiling on Thursday in front of the siege of the Marseille “rebellious”.
Like many of his comrades, he arrives in an area that has become extremely favorable to LFI thanks to the presidential campaign. But compared to 2017, a new element complicates the task of the contenders for the deputation. The agreement concluded between the left parties to constitute the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) obliges the recomposition of the lists. Between the socialists, the communists, the environmentalists and the “rebellious”, more than a thousand preinvested people and finally forced to withdraw or to dissent. What give voice to parachuting trials.
In Villeurbanne (Rhône), for example, the nomination of Gabriel Amard sparked the ire of the socialist Cristina Martineau. She withdrew with a crash on Wednesday, explaining in a press release: “I deplore the parachuting on our constituency, by the fact of the chief, of Gabriel Amard, regional advisor of Isère, nomad of politics, son-in-law of Jean- Luc Mélenchon. This candidate does not live in our city, “she said.
” Like the French people “
Serein, Mr. Amard launched his campaign on Friday in the company of representatives of all local leftist parties, with the support of the mayor of Villeurbanne, the socialist Cédric Van Styvendael. His deputy, Melouka Hadj-Mimoune, is also from the socialist town hall. “I do not react to wickedness, says Amard, it is a national election: it is that Villeurbanne takes his share in the establishment of a cohabitation, to carry Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Matignon.” ” My movement wanted me to be a candidate in Villeurbanne, I am, I would not have been elsewhere, “he said.
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