The PS president of the region OccitanieCarole Delga, who organized the “Rencontres de la Gauche” in Bram in Aude this weekend, hopes through them to embody a “positive and reassuring gathering” as opposed to a left of “invective” or “lesson giver”.
It’s about “having a unifying momentum because faced with the challenges we have, the social challenge and the climate challenge, we can only succeed if we create a positive collective momentum”, explained Carole Delga to the press. during this meeting, the third edition of which brought together some 2,500 people on Saturday and Sunday.
“It is through a positive and reassuring rally” that the left will succeed in winning, she said, castigating the “left of invective, the hostile left” in a clear allusion to La France insoumise or the “left lesson giver” who condemns “those who take their cars because they have no choice” and complains about barbecues, in a reference to Europe Ecologie-Les Verts.
No LFI or EELV represented…
In Bram, LFI was not represented, nor was EELV, whose MEP, Karima Delli, was initially scheduled to participate in a round table but ultimately canceled, due to Carole Delga’s support for the contested A69 motorway project between Toulouse and Castres. .
The spokesperson for the PCF and new senator from Paris Ian Brossat made the trip, believing that “the left has an interest in dialogue to move forward together”.
“We need to get away from the ukazes, the invectives that we have sometimes seen in recent weeks,” he told AFP, after a round table in which Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Radical Left Party (PRG) also participated. or Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, first deputy secretary of the PS and main opponent of Olivier Faure.
Asked about the 2027 presidential election, Carole Delga, who wants to be the incarnation of a “popular” and “valiant” left and to whom some attribute national ambitions, replied: “For 2027, the path goes in all cases through Occitanie because it is a region which weighs on the left and which concentrates all the problems of the French, it illustrates this France which feels far from everything, which feels relegated, often downgraded.