In Toulouse, the municipal and metropolitan opposition crumbles
Elected from the Citizen Archipelago movement, Hélène Magdo left her group at the town hall and at the Toulouse Metropolis, accentuating the division of the opposition to Jean-Luc Moudenc.
Hélène Magdo resigned from the Alternative for a Citizen Metropolis group at the last Toulouse Metropolitan Council on October 14. Member of France Insoumise and elected of the Citizen Archipelago movement, she left an opposition already divided into two groups within this assembly, since the separation from EELV, the PS and Génération.s, in September 2020. Contacted by us , Hélène Magdo, “does not wish to speak for the moment. We are reorganizing the group in the city at the moment… I will communicate when this stage is over ”.
Archipelago divided into three at the Toulouse City Council?
In terms of reorganization, it would indeed be a split of the Archipel Citizen group within the City Council. One of the 14 members of the latter, François Piquemal indicates that a press release in this direction is about to be sent to the press, without saying more. According to information from La Dépêche du Midi, “A few weeks ago, the hypothesis was a split of the group in two, as in the Metropolis, with rebellious and citizens on one side, Europe ecology, ex-PS and Génération.s on the other. But the idea of a third group made up of the Insoumis is now also mentioned ”.
Jean-Luc Moudenc’s affairs
Whatever the number of new formations that will result, this new disunity does the business of the mayor of Toulouse and the president of the Metropolis Jean-Luc Moudenc. Its united majority will face a scattered and sometimes dissonant opposition … a priori, until the end of the term of office. Hélène Magdo, now unregistered, lets it be known that she continues to “defend the ideas and the program of France Insoumise within the municipal and metropolitan councils of Toulouse”. In addition, the elected representative intends to invest in the presidential campaign for which she calls for gold and already to vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.