He responded to the invitation of Floran Vadillo, one of four dissident socialist candidates in the department. Friday, May 14, the former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was in Périgueux. He attended a Republican banquet, in support of the four Socialist candidates, who decided to stand despite the agreement with France Insoumise.
“We have a weapon: sincerity
The agreement signed between LFI, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Greens granted, on a national scale, 70 constituencies to the PS. In the Dordogne, the Socialists have obtained none. In a department anchored on the left, this decision was experienced as a humiliation for the activists and their candidates. Floran Vadillo (1st district), Christophe Cathus (2nd), Martial Peyrouny (3rd) and Christian Teillac (4th), have decided to go all the way, at all costs, even if it means going it alone.
A few days after the decisions of the four candidates to remain, the resistance is now organized in the Dordogne. Alongside Bernard Cazeneuve and the 200 activists present in the room, the president of the department Germinal Peirothe mayor of Périgueux Delphine Labails and the senator of the Dordogne Serge Merillou also attended the Republican banquet.
Admittedly, the arrival of Bernard Cazeneuve had been planned since last March, but it was his first official trip since the former prime minister resigned from the Socialist Party. “I made this decision because I am a socialist, not because I had decided to stop being one”he insisted on recalling.
“We are rebels of submission to the rebels”, hammered Germinal Peiro, alongside the four slingers. For him, the agreement wanted by France Insoumise and the national office of the Socialist Party has created more disunity than union. “We took pleasure in granting the Socialists unwinnable constituencies. And it’s the same for our Communist comrades. In the greater Aquitaine, they have two constituencies, including one in the Arcachon basin!”
“We have a weapon: sincerity”chanted Bernard Cazeneuve. “The refusal of compromises, the refusal of arrangements, the refusal of small combinations, which perhaps make it possible to save constituencies, but which do not make it possible to keep one’s sincerity, when these combinations have been made at the cost of the abandonment of everything we believe in.”