Nathalie Arthaud was in a meeting in Nice this Friday evening. Concentrating on her campaign since obtaining – easily – her 500 sponsorships, the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière in the presidential election brought together a hundred people in a small room at the Hotel Splendid.
Flagship measure of its program: the minimum wage at 2,000 euros net. But Nathalie Arthaud is above all the candidate of the social struggle, the one who advocates the end of the capitalist system. “When we see today women and men who work (…) who have trouble filling up with gas to go back to work or who have trouble getting food, housing, it becomes urgentshe says. I think that 2,000 euros should be a minimum. Me, my candidacy is a call to fight.“
She does not promise us the moon – Lucie, 27-year-old activist
Nathalie Arthaud and her supporters know it: she will not be elected president. Corn she calls on abstainers to vote in her favour. “To abstain is to remain politically invisible. You know, we often say ‘Nathalie Arthaud, it’s a protest vote.’ (…) Protesting is the first step. We must express our anger. All those who are revolted by this society as unequal as it is unjust come together” said Nathalie Arthaud, describing herself as the candidate who does not make false promises. A message heard and understood by activists and supporters. “She does not promise us the moon“says Lucie, 27.”Big pay rises will not come from a government. Only social struggles will change things” approves Philip.
Without immigrant workers, not a single public hospital would work.
Asked what she would do, if she were president, in the face of immigration, a recurring theme in the Alpes-Maritimes, Nathalie Arthaud replied that she would welcome all those who come to work in France. “These women and men who are called migrants, they belong to the world of work, to my camp (…) they will run the company. Without immigrant workers, not a single public hospital would work. There is not a single factory that would work” asserts Nathalie Arthaud. This campaign is, for Lutte Ouvrière, the opportunity to send a message: against capitalismagainst the employers and for a better remuneration of the workers.