Negotiations for a left merger for the second round of municipal elections in Toulouse resume this Monday between the lists of Antoine Maurice (Citizen Archipelago) and Nadia Pellefigue (UNE, PS, PRG and PCF) after a weekend who saw tensions increase within this latter camp.
On the Toulouse left side, the Citizen Archipelago lists of Antoine Maurice (27.57% of the votes in the first round) and UNE, PS, PRG and PCF of Nadia Pellefigue (18.53%) will they merge to confront together , with the support of Pierre Cohen (5.66%), the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (36.19%) on June 28? Started Thursday evening, negotiations continue with a meeting scheduled for Monday at 11 am. During this weekend, the respective teams worked on their joint program proposals.
This break was especially marked by the continuation of tensions within the list of Nadia Pellefigue, the Socialist Party pleading for an agreement when the leading candidate requests, within the framework of this agreement, in the name of a complementarity of projects, the Presidency of the Metropolis. Saturday, 23 civil society running mate on the Pellefigue list, like Michel Lacroix, in second position, Régine Lange, n ° 3, or Carole Maurage, n ° 7, signed a text to defend the position of their leader. “We want to reaffirm our unwavering support for our head of the list, who carries our values, our principles and our desire for a progressive future. “
Refusal of any telephone call
If they say they are “determined” to obtain an agreement, they can only conceive it within the framework of a “winning ticket” Antoine Maurice-Nadia Pellefigue, according to the sharing of skills wanted by the latter and always with the aim of an addition of forces. If they speak, thus revealing the internal tensions in broad daylight, it is because they did not appreciate the attitude of their socialist running mates, starting with the interview with Claude Raynal in our columns on Friday, a running mate who seems to want to cut the grass under the foot of his own head of list. The applicant also did not appreciate. During the weekend, she reportedly refused any phone calls from the Socialist Party.
It is therefore always with the same proposal, rejected outright by Archipel, that it will approach this second round of negotiations with a first meeting, at 10 am, with its running mates. The hour of truth is approaching for the left since the lists are to be deposited in the prefecture on Tuesday.
A call to rally
Initiated by Gabriel Colletis, professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University, and Jean-Pierre Hegoburu, urban planner, a call for the meeting, signed by a hundred people this Sunday, was broadcast this weekend. “The result of the first round showed that it is possible to create the political conditions for the radical and responsible change necessary”, indicates the text of this call which specifies “the distribution of posts and institutional functions is not at stake central today and cannot be a reason for dispersal. “An allusion to the wish to obtain the presidency of the Metropolis expressed by Nadia Pellefigue.
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