Philippe Poutou will be a candidate for the European elections in Belgium. The former NPA candidate in the presidential election will be in third position on the list of the anti-capitalist Left.
“We do not believe in the transformation of society through elections, but this period allows us to make ourselves visible,” said Denis Verstraeten, spokesperson and head of the list. The New Anti-Capitalist Party broke up at the end of 2022 into two distinct groups. The NPA-B, notably represented by former presidential candidates Olivier Besancenot and Philippe P outou, in favor of a rapprochement with LFI, but also the N PA-C, which claims to have on its side "the historic financing association of the NPA", and refuses any agreement with parties deemed "reformist" The municipal councilor of Bordeaux, a laid-off automobile sector worker, promises to fight “for an anti- capitalist Europe’.