“The election of Martine Froger as a socialist deputy”means “that the National Front [devenu le Rassemblement national] in the second round, it is not a banality, it is not inevitable”reacts Monday, April 3 on franceinfo Carole Delga, PS president of the Regional Council of Occitania and Regions of France after the election Sunday in Ariège during a partial legislative election of the dissident socialist candidate Martine Froger against Bénédicte Taurine, candidate Nupes-LFI supported by Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party.
“It was us, socialists from Occitania, our goal to ensure that the far right did not qualify in the second round”. Moreover, “the victory against the deputy of La France insoumise gives a signal that the union of the left is necessary”she added.
A union of the left “without Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the center”
This union “can be done without having Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the center”, she attacked. For her, “the left which is not divisive, which does not hysterize, has regained the confidence of our fellow citizens”. Carole Delga “thinks that this union of the left must be more balanced” and according to the president of Regions of France, “we have to get out of the fiction that they want to sell to us: if you don’t adore Jean-Luc Mélenchon, you are against the union of the left”.
“I am for the union of the left which is a force of proposals and which is not in the vociferation or positions which are extreme”it is necessary creating, its necessary to create “a union that is responsible and credible”defended Carole Delga. “We can not adore Jean-Luc Mélenchon and be on the left”launched the president of the Occitanie region. “We must be responsible, we must be united”she repeated, “but being united is not being a follower behind the leader maximo”she replied.