Paris (AFP)

Insubordinate France published a text on Tuesday calling on left-wing and environmental forces, except the Socialist Party, to unite to win the departmental and regional elections in March 2021 and thus implement a "social and health shield".

It is in line with the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon during his political re-entry in the Drôme on August 21, who had estimated that at the regional and departmental level certain differences on the State or Europe, in particular with EELV, did not prevent alliances.

"Climate change is underway. The pandemic threatens a second wave. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are already being destroyed," said the text published on the LFI site.

Thus, "time is running out to initiate the saving change of course".

If the national program of the movement "is not compatible with some of the orientations developed by the parties of the traditional left", "the rebels do not go it alone and do not claim any hegemony in political representation".

To departmental and regional departments, they therefore propose an alliance to EELV, the PCF, the GRS of Emmanuel Maurel, the NPA, the GDS of Gérard Filoche, Générations et Place publique by Raphaël Glucksmann.

The latter's European partner, the Socialist Party, is however not mentioned by the rebels.

According to LFI, these elections are an opportunity to implement a "social and health shield": "development of free access (transport, masks, canteens and school supplies ...)," social and ecological conditionality of aid to companies "," development of local public services "or even" training and employment plan for young people in difficulty ".

The Insoumis also propose to initiate the "ecological bifurcation" and to "democratize" these local communities.

EELV, for its part, during its own university of re-entry, called on all the environmentalists present to come together for these same elections.

A few days later, his boss Julien Bayou announced his candidacy for the Île-de-France region.

For his part, the EELV mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, who is leading an internal struggle for influence against the MEP Yannick Jadot in view of the appointment of a presidential candidate, had approved possible alliances with LFI in 4 of the 13 regions.

But the exclusion of the PS from the perimeter of the rebellious proposal could complicate the negotiations.

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