The drawn knives are still not put away. After the repeated failures to try to bring out a single candidacy, some seem to have given up on the very idea of a unity government on the left, in the event that one of its candidates manages to rise to the second round and win the presidential election.
Guest of the show Sunday in politics, on France 3, Sunday February 6, Anne Hidalgo (PS) refused to admit that the useful vote for voters on the left would be that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, currently the best placed among the candidates on the left in terms of voting intentions . According to Mme Hidalgo, the left embodied by the Socialist Party (PS) would be better equipped to change the daily life of the French. “There is a left that is in the incantation, in protest, in anger, and it is legitimate. But me, I am of this left which agrees to confront realities to transform them (…), and the left that transforms is the one I embody in this presidential election”, she said.
While Jean-Luc Mélenchon recently presented himself as the “effective voting” to federate the left, Mme Hidalgo again closed the door to a rally under the banner of insubordinate France. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be in the second round. When we start from a protest position that has been in dispute, including the legitimacy, of this left of government… I am this left, which first tries to bring together French women and French people. » The mayor of Paris also mentioned the refusal of rebellious France to participate in its majority, which includes, within the capital, environmentalists and communists.
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Yannick Jadot claims his “credibility”
Invited at the same time on BFM-TV, Yannick Jadot, the environmental candidate, did not fail to scratch, too, the first candidate on the left in the polls. “I have a difference with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, I want to govern this country”, he said, claiming “ the credibility of a transformation project, a project that uses European leverage to carry out all its battles ».
For her part, Christiane Taubira rather played the appeasement card in her camp, after his victory in the popular Primary, last Sunday. “I have no opponent on the left, we will govern together, our projects are very close, she advanced in the columns of the Sunday newspaper. I don’t do politics to fight against the left. We should be inspired by great democracies that know how to bring together the left, ecology, citizen movements. »
Among the persistent differences on the left, that which concerns the policy of old age remains, after the Orpea scandal, revealed by the journalist Victor Castanet. While Yannick Jadot proposes to put an end to these for-profit establishments, Anne Hidalgo does not want to ban them. ” I say “no ban”. Me, what I want is a strong public service, and we will have to hire (…). The figure I am proposing is 40,000 people to recruit”, did she say.
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