Two ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Olivier Dussopt, launched on Saturday in Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis with other ex-socialists "Territories of progress", a movement on the left wing of the majority, in support of head of state. “We have (…) a common desire to make this quinquennium successful. Social democracy has moved, it has left the PS. It must be in the presidential majority, "said the Minister of Foreign Affairs during a speech to activists in a restaurant at the gates of Paris.
About sixty former deputies, local elected representatives, activists and civil society figures signed a "constitutive manifesto" on Saturday. "The majority need an assertive, influential and independent left wing from LREM," states the text, using the terms of a forum signed in November by a hundred or so former socialists. The manifesto affirms that "the left electorate which voted Emmanuel Macron for the presidential must be found so as not to leave the field free to the only right center within the presidential majority".
The left "made up two-thirds of Macron's electorate"
"We are a fallow people who does not recognize themselves in LREM and who wants to support Emmanuel Macron", summarizes ex-MP Gilles Savary. The movement does not welcome LREM elected officials and noted that "the left is the political family which made up two thirds of Macron's electorate", explains Gilles Savary, who adds that "in the years to come, Macron's LREM political base may not be sufficient. ” It is not a question, he specifies, of being "blessed-yes-yes, to use Jean-Yves Le Drian's expression, but of supporting by conviction and weighing in on the reforms".
According to an Elabe poll at the end of January, less than two in ten French people recognize that the Head of State has the capacity to unite, far from the promise of the original "at the same time".
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