With the L’Apres movement, former rebel Raquel Garrido wants a “tool” to “avoid reliving the Hollande-Mélenchon match”

The rebellious former MP Raquel Garrido, co-founder of the Après, wishes with this movement “organize to enable unity” from the left so as not to “relive the Hollande/Mélenchon match” in 2027, she says. Raquel Garrido and those excluded from La France insoumise (Clémentine Autain, Alexis Corbière, Danielle Simonnet, Hendrik Davi) meet today in the 12th arrondissement in Paris for the constitutive general assembly of this association which they created at the beginning of July after having been excluded.

“I see the Hollande/Mélenchon match coming. We already had this match in 2012”says Raquel Garrido. According to the former rebel, the After (Association for an Ecological and Social Republic) is “the tool to avoid this, to ensure that the strategy of unity is something long-term for victory, to sustainably prevent the hypothesis of a far-right government”. Raquel Garrido greets “citizen energy” which manifested itself during the early legislative elections with 9 million votes for the New Popular Front while “some absolutely want to redo the division”.

With the After, which meets for the first time on Saturday October 5 in the presence of delegates from all over France “chosen by members”Raquel Garido defends a movement “very democratic” unlike La France insoumise. “France Insoumise today has no democratic idea for the country, does not believe in democracy as a way of managing its own movement”assures the former LFI MP. “We must embody a counterculture to the Macronist presidential monarchy and for that, we must embody it sincerely”concludes Raquel Garrido.