Alexandre Chauveau / Photo credit: LUCAS BARIOULET / FREDERIC SCHEIBER / XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 08:03, June 04, 2023
A part of the left meets in Montpellier this weekend, with on stage several figures of the Socialist Party: the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga or the former presidential candidate Benoît Hamon. All want to embody the anti-Mélenchon left and move away from the Nupes, already thinking about 2027.A left that wants to be independent, subservient to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Nupes. At the initiative of this political rally, which takes place this weekend in Montpellier, we find the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, deputy secretary of the PS, main opponent of Olivier Faure and who has repeatedly shown his rejection of an alliance of the left.
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Towards an independent list in the European elections?
Between this left and the Nupes, several themes are subject to discord: secularism, nuclear power or Europe. Some executives are also advocating internally to present an independent list in the next European elections, including former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who left the PS last year. He was present this Saturday by videoconference.
"The left of reason has not said its last word", this is to summarize what Michel Delafosse, the mayor of Montpellier, declares. A minority current in the Assembly but represented by mayors of large cities, anxious to distinguish themselves from the excesses of the rebellious France in the hemicycle. Many have in mind 2027 with the objective of presenting a center-left candidacy to try to recover an electorate gone, since 2017 at Emmanuel Macron.