PS-LFI alliance for the legislative elections: socialist Carole Delga opposes this agreement and leads the sling in Occitania – Le Monde

Slayer of the agreement between the “rebellious” and her party, the socialist Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, refuses to depart from her principles. She thus calls to vote against the possible alliance Thursday evening, during the national council of the Socialist Party (PS), in a “Letter to the left” made public on May 5 at the end of the afternoon. Denouncing “games of devices”, Ms. Delga says she is “for the union on the left but for a clear, sincere, credible and lasting union, not for a facade union. This union exists in Occitania with left-wing policies assumed and claimed. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: the agreement reached with LFI divides the Socialist Party “Repairing injustices cannot be done by breaking up” While the some three hundred members of the PS National Council meet in the evening to vote for or against the programmatic and electoral agreement concluded on Wednesday by the party leadership with La France insoumise (LFI) in view of the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, the local elected official shares the position of several socialist “elephants”, refusing any “compromise”. Former President of the Republic François Hollande, like former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who announced on Wednesday May 4 that he was leaving the PS on the same occasion, spoke out against the agreement, among others. Claiming to be “actress of a profound and essential change in an often unjust society”, the former Secretary of State in charge of trade and crafts under François Hollande castigates “the radicalism” of LFI. Throughout the presidential campaign, as well as on the evening of Ms. Hidalgo’s defeat in the first round, she denounced the line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom she considers “communitarian”, and criticized his program on the Union European. Thus, for her, “repairing injustices cannot be done by rupture, by disobedience, by confrontation or even by the violence of words that implicitly endorse violence as such”. Read the decryption: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: on the left, programmatic differences relegated to the background of the negotiations Support for dissident socialist candidacies “I hear the desire for union of the left and I share it, but I also mean the absolute need for sincerity, clarity, consistency and honesty. (…) I will therefore support the candidates on the left who will commit themselves with clarity, in fidelity to our common values”, therefore warns the one who was reinvested in her functions as president of the region in 2021. Carole Delga moreover did not not wait for the vote to do so. On Wednesday, while the number of constituencies obtained by the PS in the electoral agreement was announced – seventy including around thirty winnable – and that the Hérault was notably deprived of it, Ms. Delga went to support three in the department socialist candidates who have not been nominated by the alliance of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers In Toulouse, twenty years after April 21, 2002, Carole Delga mobilizes to prepare the future of the Socialist Party Giving her support to the candidates now becoming dissidents, she denounced an agreement which would not take into account the local anchoring of the PS and affirmed that it was necessary “clarity on the values ​​and a fair representation”. She will also be the campaign manager of Joël Aviragnet, outgoing PS deputy for the 8th constituency of Haute-Garonne, one of the six reserved for the PS out of the forty-nine in Occitania. His entourage specifies that his support can therefore also be addressed to candidates invested by the LFI-EELV-PCF-PS agreement. Willingness to act “for the refoundation of the left” After these elections, she underlines in her “Letter to the left”, Ms. Delga, who recalls her “opposition to the policy of Emmanuel Macron”, promises to to work “for the refoundation of the left”, “so that tomorrow a real force of the left, generous, serious, ambitious and tolerant, will be reborn”. In its impetus, it will be able to count, among others, on the mayor of Montpellier, the socialist Michaël Delafosse. The city councilor whose line she shares supported her “Letter to the left” on Thursday evening. He also believes that “the gathering of the left is necessary, it must be done with sincerity, coherence and clarity”. “He cannot break with essential values ​​such as the European project, secularism. The left can advance social justice if it does not embrace extremism,” writes the local elected official. If she is also deeply opposed to the agreement between the PS and LFI, Anne Hidalgo let it be known on Thursday that she would not oppose it, however. The mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, as well as several socialist mayors of big cities, affirmed that they would support the agreement, in spite of their basic disagreements. An additional dividing line at the PS. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers A secret dinner between Hidalgo, Hollande and Aubry to dynamite the Socialist Party Le Monde with AFP