Legislative: the shock of the left in the center of Toulouse
Candidate of the Republican Left in Toulouse, in the 4th district of Haute-Garonne, the essayist Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat immediately tackled the representative of the NUPES, close to the Insoumis, François Piquemal.
The shock was written in advance. In the 4th constituency of Haute-Garonne, from Mirail to Bonhoure via the Capitol, the day after her declaration of candidacy with the PRG and the Republican Left, Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat, teacher and essayist, “universalist and secular feminist “, known for his rebellious anti-France stance, “ignited” the NUPES-LFI candidate François Piquemal who appeared with a North African on Twitter. “Not at all touted, not at all clientelist […]. Make no mistake about it. Arab women are good for photos, but the candidate is the white bourgeois. “, she commented. And in the process, she fired a second salvo: “A difference between me and the FI candidate: my family lived in misery, he lived in the misery of others. ” La France insoumise, had launched Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat during the presentation of the candidacies, ” instrumentalizes ” sensitive causes – fight against racism, poverty … – for electoral purposes. The essayist had said so. The candidate is hammering it now.
This is how this constituency has become the epicenter of the shock of the left, between the coalition France insoumise, PS, EELV in the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (NUPES), and those who refuse what they accompany as a “compromise” on fundamental values, secularism in the first place.
“A man of conviction”
Strategist, the NUPES mandated the socialist Vincent Gibert to respond to the attacks. “That the will to see the left win is not shared is regrettable but that this is added to the lack of respect is even more saddening. François Piquemal is a man of conviction, sincere in his desire to build a society of real equality, ”tweeted the departmental and municipal councilor.
Asked this Friday, François Piquemal wants to keep at bay what he considers “insignificant. I’m not responding to something that has no basis, which is a fantasy uttered from a Parisian set. ” Big favorite if we are to believe Mélenchon’s score in the constituency, the candidate, who has been pounding the pavement for months, sticks to his program: “the minimum wage at €1,500, retirement at 60, blocking prices. »
Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat will launch her campaign this Monday at the San-Subra hall in Saint-Cyprien. When the name of Carole Delga, the socialist president of the Region, had been pronounced by the journalists during the announcement of the candidacies, the teacher had immediately rebounded: “I will be happy if she will support me. Like the mayor of Montpellier. »