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Meeting of the Left. The participants decide to meet “at the end of May”

The leaders of the left parties and the ecology, gathered on Saturday in Paris at the call of EELV MEP Yannick Jadot, have agreed to meet again fin mai and to extend their meeting to citizen collectives favorable to the arrival of the left in power in 2022.

A “government contract” and a “legislative pact” in anticipation

This first meeting was worth it!, it is the first step of a staircase which is high, asserted Yannick Jadot, by announcing that a new meeting would take place fin mai.

We will work on ideas with civil society, with a view to government contract and a legislative pact, he added, deferring to a later stage the question of a common candidacy for the presidential election, desired in particular by the Socialist Party.

In allusion to the communists and rebels, who each already have their candidate for 2022 (that of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, must be confirmed by the members of his party on May 9), he denounced those who don’t want to win.

We got together for the first time in a long time, that’s good news in itself, said Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS. According to the socialist number one, to win in 2022, we need a rally candidate. Those who are desperate for politics may tell themselves that something is happening.

“Real moment of politics

Julien Bayou, secretary general of EELV, described the meeting as real political moment. We have seen how Emmanuel Macron is damaging the country and is the one through whom the far right can come to power. According to him, too, it is necessary work on a term program. The road is long but exciting, it brings hope.

We each have our calendar more on the essential, we can meet and progress, also said Mr. Bayou. We have to work for a coalition and make it happen quickly , added Guillaume Lacroix, president of the PRG.

In a statement, Anne Hidalgo, the PS mayor of Paris, promised to take all her part in this essential work of gathering for build a government program, the only possible way to succeed in the work-study program.

While the meeting was taking place, in which the rebellious MP Éric Coquerel participated, LFI issued a press release entitled the way to happy days, calling for support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s candidacy for the presidential election.

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