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“
We change parties, we have to change our minds.
We did it nationally, we have to do it locally
, ”immediately attacks MP Éric Poulliat.
Saturday and Sunday, the 668 members of Renaissance in Gironde are called upon to choose their president for the next five years by electronic vote.
At the head of a list where Bérangère Couillard, the Secretary of State to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, appears in second position, the parliamentarian believes that his victory would fill two important gaps in his party at the local scale.
"
The president, without wanting to offend Mr. Skalli, would have political weight while the energy must be deployed throughout the Gironde and not mainly in Bordeaux, where he is a municipal councilor
", argues the one who endorsed his second parliamentary term.
A need to gain in scale is all the more important according to Éric Poulliat as Bordeaux, where the National Renaissance Congress will sit in September 2023, could "
become the seat of Macronie
".
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Facing him, Bordeaux city councilor Aziz Skalli, outgoing president after his appointment in 2017 by the national office, is delighted with this opposition list "
sign of democracy
".
Before retorting: “
We are not going to weigh ourselves in the balance Éric Poulliat and I, it is not by displaying a gondola head that our movement will be strong and respected.
Considering "
that he has nothing to be ashamed of his record
", the politician claims to be more worried "
about the crisis of activism
" than about his Bordeaux label which "
does not handicap him in any way in this function
".
"The deputies have a lot to do in the National Assembly"
If two deputies from Gironde, Pascal Lavergne and Thomas Cazenave appear on Aziz Skalli's list, they are positioned in 7th and 25th places, while Josiane Garcia, an activist from Sauternes without a mandate, was placed in second position.
“
Everyone has their place.
The daily life of our movement is not just a matter of elected officials.
The deputies have a lot to do in the National Assembly, especially since they are not in the majority
”, justifies the municipal councilor, arguing that the militants of Renaissance in addition do not appreciate “
the accumulation of mandates
”.
The name of the new president of Renaissance Gironde, in charge of the 25 members of the office and the local political strategy of the party, will be announced on Sunday around 6 p.m.