For André Laignel, “the left is going to defeat if it is not united” for the legislative elections.
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Discussions for a potential agreement from the left in view of the legislative elections continued on Saturday 30 April. “Outside the union, there is no future for the left”, declared on franceinfo André Laignel, socialist mayor of Issoudun (Indre) and vice-president of the Association of mayors of France. He launched Thursday a “call from local elected officials for the union of the left”which was signed by some fifty mayors.
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“It is clear that if the left is not united, it is going to defeat”he insisted, recalling that “on the ground, the left has been able to unite and achieve great success” in municipal or regional elections. According to him, “we must take into account this force embodied in the territory by the traditional left-wing parties and ecology”explaining that the PS, like the Communist Party or Europe Ecology – The Greens, had to take their full place in the agreement being negotiated with La France insoumise.
For André Laignel, the PS will be able to keep its identity in the event of an agreement. “There are no insurmountable things in a well-conducted negotiation: you have to get out of egos, but you have to keep your foundations.” He also appeals to history, recalling that the common program of the left in 1981 had been targeted by “the same reviews”but “that it was never a question of abandoning what socialism does, rather of giving it the capacity to expand”.
“Curbing in on oneself, wanting to preserve in the name of the past things that are now outdated, makes no sense”according to the vice-president of the AMF. “We must be able to make this effort of synthesis and unity to generate a majority on the left in our country”he further explained.