The worker leader and municipal councilor of Bordeaux was chosen to face Christophe Barthès, the outgoing deputy of the National Rally, in the first constituency of the department.
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The applications are detailed on the left. Philippe Poutou, municipal councilor of Bordeaux and former candidate of the New Anticapitalist Party in the presidential election, was nominated by the New Popular Front for the legislative elections in the first constituency of Aude, the NPA announced on Friday June 14.
The left alliance “has chosen to invest our comrades Philippe Poutou and Pauline Salingue as substitutes in the first constituency of Aude. We look forward to this campaign that we will build with all the activists from the different components of the Popular Front”, affirmed the New Anti-Capitalist Party in a press release. He will notably face the outgoing deputy of the National Rally, Christophe Barthès.
The NPA’s rallying to the New Popular Front had been strongly criticized by the right and the far right, particularly given the positions of this movement on the October 7 massacres in Israel. The NPA is in fact the target of an investigation for advocating terrorism, after a press release in which it recalled its “support for Palestinians and the means of struggle that they have chosen to resist”.
