It is a united and determined Left Front that is committed to the municipal elections in Nice, the 5th largest city in France, with a list that will consist of one-third women and men of openness, coming from the social, associative, cultural, and sports movements.
On this list, the top three candidates will illustrate the diversity of the Left Front. Leading them, Robert Injey, with a background in economics, member of the national leadership of the PCF and the national coordination of the Left Front, city councilor of Nice since 2001.
In second position, Roselyne Grac, work psychologist, association activist on secularism issues, departmental co-secretary and national advisor of the PG.
And, in third position: Arthur Leduc of the Alternative Left, history-geography teacher, and union activist.
Declaration of candidacy by Robert Injey, Roselyne Grac, Arthur Leduc:
Changing this society is more relevant than ever in a context where the liberal orthodoxy remains in power despite a change in government. A PS-EELV government that insists on responding to the demands of big business, implementing inhumane and ineffective austerity policies.
A government that renounces attacking finance, changing course (and we will not be fooled by a hypothetical reshuffle), granting voting rights for non-EU residents in local elections.
This government has adopted a right-wing ideology that constantly asserts the cost of labor is too high to better preserve the profits of a minority.
In Nice too, there is an urgent need for change, and it’s time to decide what we want for our city.
In a context of drift in the Estrosi system marked by the submission of the city’s interests to the business world, in a context where the air becomes unbreathable due to divisions artificially inflamed by the Mayor of Nice to distract from everything else.
Nice is the concentration of powers strengthening the concentration of wealth, while at the same time unemployment and precariousness are exploding, and the housing crisis has never been so acute.
In this context, we do not give up. We carry the ambition to build solidarities, a convergence of interests around a collective and shared project that supports the demands for social justice and environmental responsibility.
An alternative is possible, we must change philosophy: it is capital that is expensive, we must place humans at the center of priorities.
It is precisely from this reality that we call on the population to join us in constructing an alternative moving away from austerity logics and clientelism.
We want this campaign to be collective, promoting another political practice, and the elaboration of our program will be a joint effort.
We want the Nice 2014 project led by the Left Front list to result from a collective and shared elaboration.
This will be the purpose of the Nice 2014 citizen forum to be held on Saturday, November 30th at CLAJ (26 avenue Scudéri). Through 5 workshops, we will debate and decide on the development of a project based on living together, solidarity, democracy, and ecology.
The name of the list will be decided by the participants at the forum.
