David Nakache, the president of the association “Tous citoyens,” had called for a demonstration at Place Garibaldi this Saturday.
The aim: to make the voice of activists heard for a unified left-wing candidacy. Around forty people gathered to try, according to David Nakache, “to put pressure on decision-makers” to encourage a rapprochement between Jean-Luc Mรฉlenchon, candidate of “La France insoumise,” and Benoรฎt Hamon (PS).
“Here there are people from parties and outside parties. We are here to ensure that our ideas make it to the second round of the presidential election,” explains the former socialist party activist. And never mind if the two men still have fundamental disagreements in their programs: “A citizen movement is not made up of a single vision. Reconciliation is possible.”
If the rapprochement of the two candidates is not established before the first round of voting, the appeal, whose signatories come from socialists, communists, and environmentalists alike, hopes to see a left-wing union in the legislative elections.
And David Nakache assures: “We must do everything so that on the morning of May 8, we can say we tried everything.”
