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After the French Revolution, the Jacobins participated in destroying carnal identities, languages, traditions.
We think it's time for the Girondins to take their revenge
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Five regionalist parties - Bastir Occitanie, the Breton Party, the Lorrain Party, the Basque Nationalist Party (ENJ-PNB) and Prouvènço Nacioun (Provencal party) - formalized their alliance on Saturday January 15 in Paris, through the creation of a United Nations Federation (UPF).
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The FPU is called upon, in the coming weeks, to become a fully-fledged political party recognized by the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Funding (CNCCFP).
Alain Guarino, president of Prouvènço Nacioun and spokesman for the FPU, details the origin.
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We refuse to be locked into this right-left, Franco-French debate.
Politics is monopolized by the big parties, which have financial power and networks.
It's time to get out
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With a first deadline in sight: the legislative elections.
Common program and rejection of centralism
Candidates will be invested in 100 to 150 constituencies on the territory, the majority of which in Brittany, where the Breton Party will be represented everywhere. “
We feel that the potential is there
”, specifies Mathieu Guihard, its president. If there is no question of forming alliances in the second round, the FPU can nurture some ambitions, in Lorraine in particular, where the Lorrain Party reached “
15% of the votes in the cantons where we presented ourselves during the last departmental elections
. “, says Thomas Riboulet, its president.
A common program is being developed, but some proposals are already known, such as the co-officialization of regional languages alongside French, the safeguarding of cultural heritage, the overhaul of the SRU law - which provides for 25% social housing in each municipality by 2025 - or even the impossibility of building new second homes for cities which already have 20% of them.
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The rejection of centralism is also a major theme. "
There are advantages for everyone to have autonomous regions
," claims Alain Guarino.
With more power, they will be able to levy the tax and redistribute it directly instead of going through Paris and the State, which keeps a large part of it. This system is unfair
. To have a federal France, in a Europe that respects peoples and regions: that is the objective. But wouldn't this already be what another federation advocates, that of Solidarity Regions and Peoples (RPS)?
"Unlike
them, we don't want to be labeled politically
," explains Alain Guarino.
We do not recognize ourselves in their vision of regionalism
.
Jean-Luc Davezac, president of Bastir Occitanie, agrees.
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In our struggle, we must not forget anyone.
RPS is still too reserved
”.
The FPU, on the other hand, wants to be open,
"far from all extremism and all violence"
, maintaining contacts with other political organizations, from Catalonia - on the French side -, Corsica, Alsace or Reunion, which could very quickly to rejoin.