The EELV mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle.

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The EELV mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, candidate for the ecological primary of September, warns against a "hold-up on the union" during the meeting of the left, Saturday, in view of the presidential election of 2022, in a interview in the

Journal du Dimanche

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The mayor of Grenoble considers "welcome" the meeting of left leaders for 2022 next Saturday, called on the initiative of Yannick Jadot.

"I will be present if my agenda as mayor allows it," said Eric Piolle.

But the mayor calls for "to be attentive on two points".

“We must not hold up the union.

The common house is built in trust and constancy.

Second point: let's be clear about what the humanist arc is.

Party cartels don't work.

We need the alliance of civil society and unions, ”he said in the JDD.

"The great victories took place when we were able to federate political, social and trade union movements", he added, citing the Popular Front of 1936 and the plural left of 1997.

A “criminal” disunity

“Everyone has understood that, if there are three candidates, we will be swept away as in 2017. Together, we are a giant.

Separated, we would bear a heavy responsibility: that of allowing a second round between Macron and Le Pen, which the French do not want.

“In the same tone, this Sunday morning, Benoît Hamon, former socialist candidate in the 2017 presidential election, felt that it would be“ criminal ”for the left not to come together for the 2022 poll.

"If we are convinced that there is a climate emergency and a social emergency, we must come together because this is the only condition for there to be a government of ecological transition and a government of social justice by 2022" pleaded on franceinfo the founder of Générations.

"We can not say: 'we want the good of the greatest number' and finally when being a candidate, do everything to lose," he said.

A "terrifying" poll

The former Minister of Education considers "terrifying" the Ifop-Fiducial poll for Le Journal du Dimanche and Sud Radio which, testing very hypothetical second rounds, indicates that facing Marine Le Pen in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot would be beaten, Anne Hidalgo making her equal.

"This means that a majority of French people prefer the extreme right to the republican left", he worried, accusing the government, and primarily the ministers Jean-Michel Blanquer and Gérald Darmanin, through their attacks against "Islamo-leftism", to contribute to it by "demonizing" the left rather than the extreme right.

"Macron did not defeat the left, he is in the process of defeating France if he prepares through these policies the demonization of the left and the normalization of the National Front, if he prepares the victory of Marine Le Pen", he warned.

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