To impose the question of the reunification of Brittany in the presidential campaign, the association À la bretonne uses major means.
On Sunday February 20, at 11 a.m., she will deploy "
the largest Gwenn ha in the world
" - the name of the Breton flag - in front of the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), she announced on Friday.
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Contacted, the president of the association Christophe Prugne remains mysterious about the size of the flag on display.
"
It's a surprise
," he slips.
“
I can only tell you that it will be several tens of meters long.
“The banner with black and white bands and ermine will be stretched by activists of the association, “
to the sound of bombardments and bagpipes
”, specifies À la bretonne on its site.
"
This will be the first episode, particularly spectacular, of a long series of actions intended to impose this file on the agenda of the candidates
", adds the association created in 2020. Some will take place on the same day as the giant flag unfurling operation.
But impossible to know more about their content.
Cardboard of a petition in 2018
With these various actions planned before the first round of the presidential election, on 10 April, the association has only one objective in mind: to obtain from the candidates the commitment to organize a referendum on the attachment of Loire-Atlantique to Brittany.
“
This debate has been going on for 50 years.
To decide it, we have to go through popular expression
, ”said Christophe Prugne.
Especially since it is a citizen request, he underlines, because, in 2018, a petition calling for the organization of a vote on the subject collected 105,000 signatures, or "
10% of the electoral body
” of Loire-Atlantique, affirms the president of À la bretonne.
The association had already been talked about last year, during the campaign for the regional and departmental elections.
She had lobbied candidates in Brittany and Pays de la Loire, not hesitating to push them around.
In March 2021, she had printed a thousand posters on which it was inscribed "Matthieu Orphelin, the candidate who sits on democracy", pushing the ecologist to clearly affirm his support for the principle of a referendum at the Loire-Atlantique scale.
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For the moment, no presidential candidate has really positioned himself on the subject.
Apart from the ecologist Yannick Jadot, indicates Christophe Prugne, who, during a trip to Rennes as part of the environmental primary, "
said that he was in favor of the fact that the inhabitants were questioned on this question
" , reports the Nantes activist.
"
But we want a public, written commitment,
" says the latter.
In the midst of debates on purchasing power, immigration or international issues, it is difficult for such a fight to exist, just over two months before the presidential election.