Paris (AFP)

"Getting out of consumerist logic and all concrete": the LFI adviser from Paris and candidate for municipal elections in the capital Danielle Simonnet advocated Saturday in a meeting for an "ecological and social" city of emancipation ".

At the head of "Décidons Paris", a list supported by La France insoumise, Danielle Simonnet held her main meeting at Bellevilloise.

"We must rethink the city in another relationship to life, and do it by linking social and ecological issues," she said to several hundred people. The previous majorities, she said, "concreted the slightest wasteland", bringing down the place of animals in Paris.

Reason for which she mocked the call of the ecologist David Belliard for a "climate coalition" going from the ex-LREM Cédric Villani to Mrs. Simonnet via the outgoing mayor PS Anne Hidalgo: "No but it's a Joke, worry green voters, rest assured, I will not accept any alliance with villagers. "

"This speculation which drove out the sparrows also drove out the working classes: in 2001, 35% of workers and employees lived in Paris, today more than 25%," she said.

To fight against the phenomenon, Danielle Simonnet proposes to submit to a referendum the recovery of three powers by the municipality: the application of the law of requisition of "110,000 empty dwellings", the regulation of rents and the fixing of the number of nights for rent an apartment via Airbnb.

She also wants to "remunicipalize" many services, from cleanliness to parking lots and meal deliveries.

Danielle Simonnet proposes the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC) on the Paris scale: "We are the list of all the fights, at the time of 49.3 on pensions we are the only list which defends the citizen power".

Finally, according to the candidate, it is necessary to fight "a battle against the all pub to emancipate the city from the consumerist logic" and "put culture everywhere".

The meeting was held in the presence of his buddy Vikash Dhorasoo, LFI deputy Eric Coquerel and MEP Leïla Chaibi, but also actors Sophie de la Rochefoucauld and Yvan Le Bolloch.

The list is credited with between 5% and 6% of voting intentions in recent polls.

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