La Rochelle (AFP)
The Socialist Party's first secretary, Olivier Faure, on Saturday night urged activists in La Rochelle to return to "fighting" for the municipal elections, a crucial vote for the PS, and reiterated his calls for a rally on the left.
"The time of the gloom is no longer in season", "let's go back to the fight", he said in his speech closing the first summer university that the PS has organized since 2015.
The municipal elections of March 2020 are a "local poll, but local does not mean depoliticized La Rochelle sign our entry into the campaign," he said.
"Over the next six months, we will organize, under the responsibility of Boris Vallaud, three major forums that will cut across the social, ecological and democratic crises we face" before bringing "proposals" to the debate. Faure.
On the project side, the first secretary called for developing together social and ecology, stressing that "climate inequalities reinforce social inequalities". "It would be a strategic mistake to deal with these issues in isolation or to oppose them," he pleaded before handing his hand again to the left-wing partners, in particular Europe Ecology the Greens and the Rogue, both gathered together. summer schools in Toulouse, the same weekend.
"The day before yesterday the Socialists dominated the progressive camp.Yesterday, the Rogue, today the ecologists think to have acquired the talisman of a victory without share," noted Olivier Faure.
But, "the truth is more cruel to everyone.No offer, taken separately, is today able to impose itself, no ambition is able to bend all the others". And "the danger is to leave the political debate monopolized by a face-to-face between unhindered liberalism and uncompromising nationalism," he said, calling for unity, otherwise the risk is according to him that of "the erasure of all the left and ecology".
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