The macronists on the left are active in the home stretch.
A few days before the presidential election, several former socialist figures rallied to Emmanuel Macron have announced the founding of the "Progressive Federation", a new political party favorable to the president-candidate.
A way to send a new signal to left-wing voters, with crucial votes in the event of a new Macron-Le Pen second round.
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"Given the gravity of the period, the dangerous rise of the far right, it is time to offer the French a real social-democratic alternative because the next few years will be decisive for France"
, wrote in a press release published on Monday. former Minister François Rebsamen, confirming information from Le
Parisien
.
Candidates for the June legislative elections
This movement is a “social, republican, ecological and European”
response
from those who
“(refuse) to see socialism disappear”
, details the mayor of Dijon, where Emmanuel Macron went on Monday March 28.
His initiative brings together a dozen elected officials from the left, including former ministers - Juliette Méadel, Thierry Repentin -, elected officials - the mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) Olivier Klein, the former -president of the metropolis of Lyon David Kimelfeld, or the mayor of Dunkirk Patrice Vergriete.
The party statutes have yet to be filed.
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However, there is no question of giving
“unconditional support”
to the head of state, it is explained in the entourage of François Rebsamen.
The elected officials want to defend their
“left”
sensitivity on several points of the program, for example by defending a better consideration of the arduousness of work in the pension reform.
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To achieve this, the leaders of the “Progressive Federation” hope to influence a possible future Macronist majority.
They therefore plan to present candidates for the June legislative elections, but for this they will have to make their way through the maquis of pro-Macron parties.
From La République en Marche to “Progressive Federation” now, no less than eight majority parties will have to agree.
With this newcomer, the negotiations on the investitures promise to be even more complicated than expected.