History is knocking at the door of the union of the left.
Exactly fifty years ago, on July 12, 1972, a historic agreement was signed between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party.
A “Common Program” of government, which the Left Radical Movement quickly joined.
In the same salon of the Aiglon of the Intercontinental hotel where this document (now The Westin) was signed, Lionel Jospin responded on Tuesday to the invitation of the François Mitterrand Institute.
The opportunity to underline the differences between the program of the left of 1972 and that of the Nupes of 2022.
For Lionel Jospin, this common government program, with strong measures such as the prohibition of the death penalty, free health care for all or the establishment of a proportional vote in the National Assembly, had everything a "
historical act
".
Quickly becoming "
the symbol of the unity of the left
", this text "
continued to live in the minds of people on the left, as a sign that it could...
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