"We wish to draw your attention to the particularly worrying situation" in Guadeloupe, wrote in their mail Mr. Mélenchon, the president of the LFI group at the Palais Bourbon Mathilde Panot and the LREM deputy of Guadeloupe Olivier Serva.
"The right to water and to sanitation of our fellow citizens is violated there, leading to the cascade violation of related fundamental rights: in particular the right to education and the right to health protection", they add. .
"The right to safe and clean drinking water is a fundamental right, essential for the full exercise of the right to life and all human rights", continues the letter addressed to the defender of rights, Claire Hédon.
In Guadeloupe, 56% of the population is not connected to a sanitation network, a situation even more damaging during a pandemic period because "without water, Guadeloupeans cannot perform the first barrier gestures, wash their hands ", also underlines LFI in a press release.
Ms. Panot is president of the Commission of Inquiry on the control over water resources by private interests and its consequences, for which Mr. Serva is the rapporteur.
She will accompany Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is expected on Tuesday in Guadeloupe, where he will visit the CHU des Abîmes on Wednesday and meet suspended personnel as well as activists of the "collective in struggle" before holding a meeting in Gosier.
Thursday he will pay tribute to the Slave Market in Petit-Canal, before going to Martinique where he will hold a meeting on Saturday.
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