Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, during his campaign meeting in Lyon, June 14, 2021. @AnthonyFaure
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In front of more than 250 people, Monday evening in Jean-Macé, in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem crushed the record of the outgoing president, Laurent Wauquiez, described as “brutal, cynical, conspiratorial and Trumpian” by the socialist candidate . The latter has displayed all her determination for her comeback in politics.
There was joy and a lot of smiles on the faces of the militants, mostly socialists, gathered Monday evening in Territoires, a wasteland in the city, between two SNCF tracks from Jean-Macé station, in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon. The joy of finally meeting in the open air for a meeting. To share, to discuss, to remake the world, to argue. To debate. To talk about politics. Not just in video behind screens. With sun, heat, food trucks, deckchairs, parasols.
The star of the evening was the great ghost. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. The former Minister of National Education of François Hollande is back to battle. In the battle of the regional. In a context far from being favorable for the PS, when it is not outgoing. She knows it, the game is far from won. It is even almost mission impossible in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. All the polls ensure a large victory for the outgoing president, Laurent Wauquiez.
“I know what I owe to the Republic, to the values of France, to the left”
But Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has plunged again. “What a pleasure to meet at home, in the Rhône department“, she said in front of about 250 people.”I know what I owe to the Republic, to the values of France and to the left“. It is like a leftist candidate not really assembled that” Najat “, as everyone calls her, returns to the fight:” le fight between two opposing worlds, according to the candidate. The one who stirs up divisions (Laurent Wauquiez) and the one who is obsessed with only one thing: harmony, well-being for all (his)“, continued the candidate.
All the socialist oils in the region had come to support “Najat”. Brag about his “energy“, to “determination“and”the tireless activist who has always remained upright in her convictions“. From Jean-François Debat, the mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse to the two mayors of the Metropolis of Lyon, Cédric Van Styvendael (Villeurbanne) and Hélène Geoffroy (Vaulx-en-Velin). The former mayor of Villeurbanne, Jean- Paul Bret, was also present, as the solidarity assistant for the city of Lyon, Sandrine Runel, or the MEP Syvie Guillaume, but also around 250 people.
Behind “Najat” and the “left”, Laurent Wauquiez, the outgoing LR president of the region, and candidate for his re-election, was on everyone’s lips. He was castigated by everyone. Jean-François Debat denounced a region “exclusively at the service of the one-man patronage policy“, “a way of doing toxic politics“, “and a right that has become a stepping stone for far-right ideas “.
“Wauquiez is brutal, cynical, conspiratorial, Trumpian”
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Hélène Geoffroy, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, denounced “Laurent Wauquiez’s excessive communication policy, his cinema, his cynicism“. “He let us down in the working-class districts. We must deliver the region of Laurent Wauquiez“, added the mayor of the 4th most populous municipality of the Metropolis of Lyon. As for Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, she strafed the outgoing president, a man “brutal, cynical, conspiratorial, Trumpian“, which manages the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the 2nd most populous region in France (8 million inhabitants) with a”dark cabinet“.
“We have to start all over again“, insisted the socialist candidate, betting on a”region of all security“. “The first is that of employment, and then there is housing security“, she continues. She promises in particular to recruit 1000 caregivers, to build new high schools.”We will find solutionss “, she hammered. NVB is betting on a region resolutely on the left. With employment (especially for young people) as an absolute priority. Find more in length about Najat Vallaud-Belkacem’s proposals for the region here.”Being on the left is more difficult than being on the right because we refuse to play on fears, to find scapegoats“, launched in front of an acquired assembly the mayor of Villeurbanne Cédric Van Styvendael, mayor of the 19th most populous municipality in France.
“By dint of seeing vultures blowing on the embers, seeing the chief polemicists as soon as we turn on the TV in the morning, we end up wondering if there are still places for left-wing ideas.“, launched Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.”Yes yes yes more than ever, we need the left“, she again hammered. A left, for the moment, divided before the first round in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Even if the national president of the radical left party, Guillaume Lacroix – second on the list of NVB in the Metropolis of Lyon – was in Jean-Macé Monday evening to support the former minister.
The PRG is behind “Najat” but not the ecologists, not the rebels, not the Communists, engaged on other lists in the 1st round. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Fabienne Grébert, the head of the environmentalist list, are also neck and neck in the polls (between 10 and 12%). The one who arrives at the “head of the left” will then go to “combat” in the second round. In the fight between “two opposing worlds“, dixit the former Minister of National Education. A fight which appears very unbalanced, a few days before the vote, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. But only the voters will have the final choice. Finally, those who will vote …
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