The Socialist Party is torn around the agreement with La France insoumise in view of the legislative elections next June, which must be validated at the PS National Council on Thursday evening. If the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced in the evening that he was leaving the party in “disagreement with the alliance with the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”six socialist mayors of big cities themselves, come out in favor.
The text responds to a deep aspiration of women and men on the left
So they ask confirmation of this agreementstarting with Johanna Rolland, mayor of Nantes and campaign manager for socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo. “In responsibility, we call on the socialists to validate this agreement, which opens the prospect of the gathering of the left and environmentalists” explain the six city councilors in a joint press release.
The mayors of Nantes, Nancy, Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Villeurbanne and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin consider that this text “unevenly reflects the action of [leurs] gathering local majorities”. But they concede that he “responds to a deep aspiration of women and men on the left to find a path of hope”. If they validate this agreement, they undertake to offer “a path to rebuild a new home for the ideas of the social, republican and ecological left” after the ballot, “whatever the outcome”.