The “working” left mobilizes in Bram: convincing, securing and preparing for the future

This Saturday, September 28, in Bram, “the left that works” showed itself united and close to the people. Independant – NATHALIE AMEN VALS

This Saturday, September 28, in Bram, “the left that works” showed itself united and close to the people. Independant – NATHALIE AMEN VALS

Gathered in Bram this Saturday, September 28, the left behind Carole Delga intends to reconnect with citizens, break stereotypes and retake the political field. Deputies, mayors and figures of social democracy debated the means to win back the electorate, by addressing sensitive issues such as security, citizen dialogue and the union of progressive forces to prepare a credible political alternative.

This Saturday, September 28, the left “who works”, gathered in Bram, developed the points of an outline of a program. Because the message was clearly displayed, both by the European deputy Raphaël Glucksmann and the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga: the challenge is to take power and unite to win. With in the background debates, speeches and round tables, this question: how to convince voters ?

Reestablishing dialogue with citizens and reaching out to them

First task, and not the least, to re-establish dialogue,"addressing everyone, even those who can no longer stand the left", Raphaël Glucksmann pointed out in particular. Combat the stereotype that left-wing elites do not like France or the French: “If we feed this, which some on the left do all the time, we will be ousted from the possibility of presiding over a nation towards which we do not show love”, he further stressed.

The left must stop talking to the left, “stop talking among ourselves about issues that concern 1% of the French”, Carole Delga stated, and go, in a way, walk on the flowerbeds of the extreme right: engage on the ground, engage directly with citizens and communicate clearly on future actions.

To get out, as Flora Ghebali, essayist and on the Europe Écologie Les Verts list in the last European elections, said, of the “filter bubbles, algorithms where there are 20,000 of us thinking the same thing. 20,000 out of almost 70 million French people, that's nothing. We must go and conquer echo chambers that are not ours”.

The left must not be afraid to talk about security

“The dealers, who annoy people, their first victims are the middle classes, who then turn to the extreme right”, analyzed Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, socialist mayor of Rouen and number 2 of the PS. Far right which has made security one of its favorite themes. The left must therefore take hold of this issue, and not be afraid to talk about security: “It is at the heart of the Republic, and it must be put back at the heart of the left's project”, thus supported the mayor of Rouen.

Michaël Delafosse, socialist mayor of Montpellier and present in Bram on September 28th, understood this well, and is implementing this project in his city in a concrete manner: transport police, housing brigade, support for projects to pool national and municipal police stations in the sensitive district of Mosson…

Another example with Pierre Ouzoulias, communist senator of Hauts-de-Seine : “Of course I am demonstrating for a new police station. In Neuilly, there is no need for one, but in the neighborhoods, people do not have to put up with motorcycle concerts all night long”. And according to Nicolas Mayer Rossignol, “we must dismantle false solutions. We have never seen an elected official from the extreme right improve the issue of security. It is up to us, the left, to re-establish the link with the civil fabric”. Because this security goes hand in hand with “freedom. The freedom for a woman to be able to walk in the street when she wants, as she wants without being constantly attacked", supported Carole Delga.

A clear course and unity

The expression has become a gimmick, after the interview with Raphaël Glucksmann the day after the dissolution of the National Assembly by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. The MEP chose to use it again, during his speech at the Rencontres de la gauche, to support the direction that social democracy should take. In short, stop procrastinating and say “what we are and what we want”.

“No more providential man, and no more heiress, but a team”, ready to carry on the same footing, “social and ecology, cities and countryside, secularism and the fight against discrimination, budgetary seriousness and the revaluation of salaries”. Here is the left's plan to prepare to govern, and this as soon as there is a possible censure of the Barnier government: “The left has the responsibility to live up to the hope it carries, to get to work, so that tomorrow, it will have a Prime Minister who will improve the lives of the French.”

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