Sunday evening, we heard resounding calls for the union of the left for the second round of regional in Occitania.
Antoine Maurice, the EELV candidate who came in fourth place with 8.84%, even explained that “the second round is the time of the rally”, thinking to lead this Monday to an agreement with the socialist Carole Delga, who came in first (39.57 %). But these declarations hit the wall of negotiations.
In the middle of the afternoon, the environmental candidate announced that discussions with Carole Delga’s team were suspended, regretting it. In a press release, he said he was ready to put a handkerchief on his opposition to the expansion project of Port-la-Nouvelle or that of the Toulouse-Castres motorway, supported by the outgoing socialist president. And to conclude that he hoped that his “outstretched hand” could still be grasped. Less than an hour later, the main interested party definitively closed the door to a possible merger.
Declaration of@AntoineMAURICE following the suspension of negotiations by the teams of @CaroleDelga pic.twitter.com/OTeMB4bJMK
– Occitanie naturally (@OcNaturellement) June 21, 2021
“At some point we have to move forward. We did not find a favorable outcome, the discussions did not allow us to find an agreement on the number of regional advisers, and on the functioning of the majority. I proposed eight places they claimed 18. We have an ecological and citizen project which responds to the ecological emergency ”indicated Carole Delga during a press briefing.
The latter will therefore present the same list in the first round as in the second, arguing that it has among its troops representatives of ecology, in particular Agnès Langevine, outgoing vice-president suspended by EELV, and that it also benefits from the support of headliners like José Bové.
Governance and jurisprudence
Beyond the differences on future governance, Carole Delga can this time afford to go it alone. Unlike 2015. Between the two ballots, the Socialist won nearly 100,000 voters in the first round while abstention is higher this year than in the previous ballot. She also came first, ahead of RN Jean-Paul Garraud by 255,000 votes, when in 2015 it was Louis Aliot who supplanted her by more than 150,000 votes.
This Sunday, some of the 133,388 voters who voted for Antoine Maurice could naturally slip his name into the ballot box. And Carole Delga could benefit from the jump in participation if there is one, as it had been the case six years ago. If she is re-elected, this will also allow her to leave with a more unwavering majority, which was not always the case during the last term with the ecologists. Not to mention the members of the Left Front, elected on its list in 2015, and who opposed certain projects of the majority.
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Carole Delga had also announced long ago that she would not merge with Myriam Martin’s list (LFI / NPA) if it obtained more than 5%. Which was the case on Sunday evening. “His choice does not bring people together, it excludes. The time should not be for sectarianism but for humility and democratic vigilance, ”laments the Insoumise candidate.