All the left-wing parties will leave united in the first round of the regional elections in June in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, they announced this Friday in a joint press release, making a final appeal to the environmentalist pole to join them. .

"We solemnly call on the Ecologist Pole and EELV to join this unprecedented unitary approach which will allow us to fundamentally change our region", explains this press release signed by all the leftist formations, from the PS to LFI via the PC, Place Publique, the GRS or Génération.s.

The environmental parties and in particular EELV, united within an environmental pole, also call for a united list of the left and environmentalists in the first round of the Regionals.

But they made it a prerequisite that this list be led by their leader, the elected Var EELV Jean-Laurent Felizia.

Unknown to the general public, Jean-Laurent Felizia had been appointed head of the Environmental Pole after the ousting of Olivier Dubuquoy, also a supporter of a large gathering in the first round and party to join the left alliance since.

Around a table this weekend

Discussions are still scheduled this weekend between the two parties to reach a last-minute agreement. This large union of the left could announce its head of the list "during the next week", according to one of the candidates running for this post, Marc Pena, professor of law at the University of Aix-Marseille. The other candidates are the environmental activist Olivier Dubuquoy, the lawyer from Nice Mireille Damiano, who notably defended the association of aid to migrants Roya Citoyenne, the former teacher unionist (FSU) Laurent Tramoni, and the deputy mayor of Marseille Olivia Fortin, elected in June within the Printemps Marseillais, this large left-wing alliance which ended twenty-five years of reign of the mayor LR Jean-Claude Gaudin.

For the moment, only two parties have officially designated their head of the list for the Regional in Paca: the RN, with the former Sarkozyste minister and now MEP Thierry Mariani, and LREM with Sophie Cluzel, the secretary of state in charge of People with Disabilities.

Renaud Muselier, outgoing LR president, should formalize his candidacy soon.

The left has been absent from the regional hemicycle since 2015, its list, then led by the socialist Christophe Castaner, having decided to withdraw in the second round to block the road to the FN list led by Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.

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