Left-wing sympathizers gather in Golden Coast three months before the next presidential election. A public meeting is scheduled for this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Quetigny with the idea of designating a common candidate in the race for the Elysée.
After the volte-face of Anne Hidalgo who presented her program this Thursday, the supporters of the popular consultation are mobilizing like Pierre Abecassis, one of the Côte-d’Oriens leaders of the collective for a Popular Primary.
France Bleu Bourgogne: after the refusal of Yannick Jadot, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon or even Fabien Roussel, it is now Anne Hidalgo who refuses to submit to the vote of left-wing sympathizers at the end of January. She already has lead in the wing this popular primary?
Pierre Abecassis: I do not think so. We are 100 days away from the presidential election, we are still a long way off, a lot can happen! We continue to hold out hope that a common candidate will emerge on the left. Remember during the last presidential election, Yannick Jadot retired just days before the deadline. Nothing is lost !
France Bleu Bourgogne: Yet it is not won, Anne Hidalgo refuses for example to submit to the vote of the Popular Primary which will take place at the end of January. Are you tired of all these skirmishes between left-wing candidates?
Pierre Abecassis: No, let’s keep fighting! It is only the fights that we do not lead that we are sure to lose. And we in Côte-d’Or, we have a first meeting on Saturday with the signatories. We must continue to adhere to the popular primary!
It is only the fights that we do not lead that we are sure to lose. And we in Côte-d’Or, we have a first meeting on Saturday with the signatories.
France Bleu Bourgogne: 300,000 people have already registered their participation for the online vote of this popular Primary. How much in Côte d’Or?
Pierre Abecassis: Several hundred ! We are at 250 signatories in the Dijon conurbation. We are filming with 400 signatories in the Côte d’Or. Above all, they are citizens who are fed up with divisions!
France Bleu Bourgogne: This is still a fairly low figure. How do you intend to convince new citizens?
Pierre Abecassis: By taking action! The purpose of Saturday’s meeting is also to see together what actions we could take to exert popular citizen pressure on the candidates who have not yet registered for the popular primary. We still hope to convince them. It is not a question of constraining but of convincing politically.
The purpose of the meeting in Quetigny is to see together what actions we could take to put pressure on the candidates who are not yet registered in the popular primary.” Pierre Abecassis
Quite simply by the citizen movement, the movement of opinion and political reflection. You still have to look a little in the opinion polls, there is a reservoir: 70% of French people think that a single candidate is needed to carry the values of the left for this presidential election.
We want to talk about a block of values, social justice, climate justice and democratic justice. It’s the only weapon we have on the citizens’ side, but it’s an important weapon.