For the Radicals, the priority is clear: political change.
A change that necessarily involves, within the current institutional system, maintaining the alliance between the right and the center for the 2017 electoral milestones.
A delegation from the Alpes-Maritimes federation, led by its departmental president Hervé CAEL, participated on Saturday, February 4, 2017, in the 116th Congress of the Radical Party (UDI) in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
During a secret ballot, the delegates of this assembly determined the political line of this political formation: the Azurean radicals, led by the departmental president Hervé Cael, cast their votes for the motion presented by deputy Bertrand Pancher and supported by the national president Laurent Henart, mayor of Nancy.
This text obtained more than 2/3 of the votes.
The analysis is stark: already weakened by a persisting economic and social crisis, and now facing the threat of terrorism, France is encountering an unprecedented political chaos, exacerbating extremisms. More than ever, there is a call for political change and an alternative to the current system.
Beyond vital and widely shared economic and social reforms, the “Radical Manifesto 2017” reaffirms its essential values of Secularism, Republic, Progress, and Justice. It outlines strong perspectives for a new model of society, a deeply renewed institutional system, and a more participative democracy.
As a result, the 116th Congress of the Radical Party (UDI) declared in favor of:
-Political change, which cannot stem from the outgoing majority accountable for the current record, and thus requires an alliance of the center and the republican right for the presidential, legislative, and senatorial elections of 2017.
-Clear conditions to assert to allies concerning the values the Radicals are attached to: secularism, education, social and environmental development, Europe, and local democracy.
-Political independence: the Radical Party will remain a sovereign party in a pluralistic coalition. A strong centrist parliamentary group in the National Assembly and the Senate is a condition for this.
