This union of the left, what do the elected officials of Toulouse think?
It is done ! The negotiations were very long, approximately more than 48 hours, day and night, but the Socialists and the Insoumis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon reached an agreement in the early morning of May 4, 2022, around 5 a.m.
According to information from our colleagues at France info, concluded at the PS and LFI, an “agreement in principle” was found between the delegations of the PS and that of the Popular Union on the distribution of the constituencies. Thursday, May 4, in the evening, the National Council of the Socialist Party was seized by Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS. Faced with this union expected by the Insoumis and at the same time decried by the opposition, Toulouse politicians did not fail to share their resentment.
Moudenc, Delga, Piquemal… What do the elected representatives of Toulouse think of the Union of the left?
Upon confirmation of union of the left made, Toulouse politicians reacted to this alliance for the next examination.
The first city councilor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR), denounces “the mélenchonisation of the PS”. In a published thread, the mayor of Toulouse deplores a union that turns “to compromise” and castigates a PS which “turns its back on its humanist tradition”.
For François Piquemal, LFI candidate for the fourth constituency of Upper Garonne, the union of the left looks like a small victory. The municipal councilor did not fail to greet “all those who had to leave their place for the NUPES agreement to be made.”
The deputy mayor of Toulouse, Pierre Esplugas-Labatut, does not mince his words, qualifying thePS and FI agreement of “kiss of death”.
Finally, the president of the Occitanie Méditerranée Pyrénées Region, Carole Delga (PS), deplores this union, which wipes the PS off the map in Occitanie for the next legislative elections.
We discovered an hour ago the agreement on the constituencies and as I speak we do not yet have the programmatic agreement. For example, there is no constituency for Hérault, two out of ten in Haute-Garonne. In Brittany, the president of the Region had no information on his region either”, regrets Carole Delga, in remarks collected by our colleagues from Midi Libre.
What does the Union of the Left agreement contain?
The text takes up the main lines of the agreements already signed by Europe-ecology the Greens and the Communist Party. But there are nonetheless notable differences.
In L’agreement concluded with EELV, it is stated that in order to apply the common programme, it will be necessary to be ready “to disobey certain European rules”. However, specifying that this had to be done “with respect for the rule of law”. The agreement with the PCF also provides for “disobedience to the rules of the European Union which would be in contradiction with the application of our program”.
In agreement with the PS, the formulation, with the trebuchet, is as follows: “Because of our stories, we are talking about disobeying for some, of derogating temporarily for others, but we are aiming for the same objective: to be in ability to apply the shared program of government and thus accepting the mandate that we will have given the French.” The text specifies in particular that it will be necessary to be ready “not to respect certain rules, while working to transform them”. It is also underlined that “the government that we will form for this legislature cannot have as its policy the exit from the Union, nor its disintegration, nor the end of the single currency”.
Furthermore, in theagreement of the PS, beyond the long passage devoted to the EU, a paragraph concerning the war in Ukraine has been added to the texts of EELV and the PCF. “In an international context of tensions and war on the European continent and in the face of the atrocities decided by Vladimir Putin, we defend the sovereignty and freedom of Ukraine”, insisted on specifying the socialists. They also indicate that they will continue “to work on our convergences to find ways and means to restore peace and preserve the territorial integrity of all countries”.
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