The federation of Alpes-Maritimes of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC) is organizing its first “cherry festival” this Sunday, June 9*, a republican banquet around Jean-Luc Laurent, deputy of Val-de-Marne and national president of the MRC, and Ladislas Polski, regional councilor and municipal councilor of La Trinité, departmental president of the movement.
The “cherry festival” is also an opportunity for the MRC to express its desire to play a significant role in local and departmental political debates and during important elections coming up in 2014 and 2015.
The MRC and its four parliamentarians are part of the majority without participating in the government. As their founder Jean-Pierre Chevènement says, it is a support given “with eyes wide open” that the MRC brings to Francois Hollande’s policy.
According to Ladislas Polski: “The movement supports the growth and competitiveness pact championed by Louis Gallois, who was a close associate of Jean-Pierre Chevènement: to ensure the sustainability of funding for education, health, safety, all the pillars on which the republican pact is based, the nation must find its way back to wealth creation, growth, and employment, thus international competitiveness.
But this challenge of economic recovery and reindustrialization is inseparable from a profound reorientation of the European Union, especially monetary policy, in a contradictory dialogue particularly with our German neighbors: it is on this conviction built over many years that our parliamentarians based their vote against the European budgetary treaty last autumn, without however being discouraged by Francois Hollande’s ability to further advance his ambition of restoring our country.”
