Michèle Picard, PCF mayor of Vénissieux, announced in a press release on Monday that she was withdrawing her candidacy for the legislative elections, in the name of the fight “against the right and the far right”.
It fades in favor of the Insoumis Idir Boumertit, the new candidate of Nupes in the 14th district of the Rhône, after the withdrawal of Taha Boufas, suspected of sexual violence.
Also vice-president of the Metropolis of Lyon, Michèle Picard, supported by the communist leader Fabien Roussel, hoped to replace Taha Bouhafs as the candidate of Nupes.
However, Idir Boumertit, 4th deputy of the PCF town hall, and former campaign director of Taha Bouhafs, was preferred to him.
The expressed wish not to further divide the left
“At the announcement of a mediatized and divisive parachuting, which can only divide, we decided to maintain our candidacy, the most effective in beating the right and the far right”, recalled Michèle Picard in a press release.
“The legitimate candidacy of a woman, a committed, combative PCF mayor, seems to pose a problem for Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, she writes.
But "in this situation of division on the left and despite the very many support expressed this weekend, I choose to preserve and continue the work in Vénissieux and in the Metropolis", explains the mayor of one of the last bastions of municipal communism. .
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Legislative elections 2022
Candidacy
La France Insoumise (LFI)
French Communist Party (PCF)
Taha Bouhafs
Lyons
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes