Tours (AFP)

Denouncing a Jacobin "archaism", about twenty left-wing mayors and environmentalists, displayed themselves in Tours around Anne Hidalgo and Eric Piolle, to defend a fight for the climate and against inequalities at the local level.

"We are decentralizers. Finally, we must get out of this archaism in which our country has been immersed for a very long time, this Colbertism", which means that "everything is decided at the level of the Parisian ministries", affirmed the mayor PS de Paris, Mme Hidalgo, in front of the press.

This "Jacobism is scary", insisted the city councilor of the capital, reelected on June 28 with a social and environmental program.

"There is an emergency on the climate, on the issue of inequalities, on the democratic crisis", continued Ms. Hidalgo, "we will be there to bring the issues to which the government is not at the rendezvous: the environmental question, the translation of the citizens' convention for the climate. Together we will be able to speed up the process and show a different path from that proposed "by the government.

In Tours, chosen because of its centrality in the country, and because it is an EELV ecologist, Emmanuel Denis, who swept the city from the outgoing mayor Christophe Bouchet, about twenty mayors of large metropolises had given themselves meeting to see how they can, together, "contribute to the major debates" to come (energy transition, inequalities, economic development ...), according to Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy to Ms. Hidalgo.

The mayor PS of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, took a concrete example to illustrate this desire: "the common point of all our programs", she said, "is to increase in power on organic in the canteens It may seem minor, but it is a daily subject that speaks of purchasing power, climate, solidarity ".

- "Happy to be together" -

Apart from Mmes Hidalgo, Rolland and M. Piolle, were also present Léonore Moncond'huy (EELV, Poitiers), Nathalie Appéré (PS, Rennes), Bruno Bernard (EELV, metropolis of Greater Lyon), Michaël Delafosse (PS, Montpellier), Cédric Van Styvandael (app. PS, Villeurbanne) ...

After a working session at the town hall of Tours, all met for lunch in a tavern on the banks of the Loire, "happy to be together", as Ms. Hidalgo repeated on the way.

Even if his entourage had announced to AFP, after his re-election, that "Paris en commun", the platform which had supported her during her municipal campaign, would become "a political structure" beyond the borders of the capital, this "The galaxy of the broad left does not constitute anyone's stable. It is also the sine qua non of its success," stressed Mr. Grégoire.

2022 is however in everyone's mind, with the hope displayed of ending the policy of Emmanuel Macron and his "vague" program (dixit Piolle) to fight against global warming. The day before, the ex-director of Liberation Laurent Joffrin launched a movement on the left, which is also likely to bring together socialists, environmentalists, radicals and disappointed with macronism.

"We are at the right level. Together we are stronger," said Ms. Hidalgo.

"Those who spoke of a" start-up nation "about France, added Mr. Piolle, jokingly about a formula used at the start of his five-year term by Emmanuel Macron," each time miss the envy expressed by the French, whether it is through the Citizen's Convention on the climate or through municipal authorities ".

"Even if this is not our first concern, we all have the hope of creating a new broad political movement around the subjects of solidarity, ecology, citizenship", confided the mayor of Tours.

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