The resignings intend to get closer to the progressive federation, the other movement of the left wing of the presidential majority.
Le Monde with AFP
They refuse to be swallowed by the presidential party. About fifteen members of Progress Territories (TDP), the party of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, located on the left wing of the majority, announced Thursday, November 17 that they left the movement to protest against its dissolution within of rebirth.
Less than ten days of the TDP congress, scheduled for November 26, “which must validate its political merger within Renaissance”, the signatories deplore in a press release the “renunciation of the current management of TDP to its initial project : Participate in a refoundation of the social democratic left in our country “.
This refoundation is “all the more necessary” since the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) “is not part of the heritage of the humanist, secular, democrat and European left which has strongly marked the model French social of his imprint, “say the dissidents, including Gilles Savary and Yves Durand, both co -founders of TDP.
“We draw the consequences of this new political landscape to the left of the presidential majority by resigning”, add the signatories, who constitute themselves as a “collective of reformist social democrats”. They promise to engage a rapprochement with the Progressive Federation, launched in early November on the initiative of François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon, and Juliette Méadel, former secretary of state for victims.
“Support of the early hour of Emmanuel Macron, we will continue to work at a broad gathering of all the social and proeuropian components of the French left, turned towards the future, and a rapprochement between the Republican Forces Against the risk of extreme choice in the next elections, “assure the signatories, who also count the former deputies Alain Calmette and Gérard Gouzes as well as Roland Ries, ex-mayor of Strasbourg.