“What is happening” on the spot “is the example to follow”, for Philippe Poutou, presidential candidate of the NPA

“What is happening in Corsica, for us, is the example to follow”said Philippe Poutou, candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in the presidential election, Saturday March 19 on franceinfo. “When things go wrong, that’s how the government shakes, and that’s how the power realizes that it has gone too far.” The visit of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to ease tensions on the island, ended on Friday. The word “autonomy” is written in black on white in the report of his exchanges with the president of the executive council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni.

“We are in the continuity of what comrade Alain Krivine was doing [le fondateur de la Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, ancêtre du NPA, décédé le 12 mars], in the continuity of what Olivier Besancenot does [ancien candidat du NPA à la présidentielle], we are there and we say ‘yes, this world, we have to fight it'”, he also said.

“In a society that is rotten like today’s, in a society where there are billionaires at the same time as there are precarious people, in a society where Macron allows himself to explain that he will have to work longer when most people who are 60 are already unemployed or worn out by work, when we have a cynicism like that, when we have a violent speech like that, we have no qualms about saying, indeed, that the revolt is legitimate”he insisted. “If the redistribution is not done, it will have to be imposed”asserted Philippe Poutou.