The Radical Left Party (PRG) will join the movement created by former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, its president Guillaume Lacroix announced on Saturday at a congress in Haute-Garonne.
Mr. Lacroix, re-elected the same morning for three years at the head of the PRG (he was the only candidate), chose not to join the left-wing Nupes alliance concluded between LFI, the PS, the PCF and EELV in latest legislation.
Defending a line of independence, Mr. Lacroix intends to contribute to rebuilding "a left of government", and had in this context invited to his congress Bernard Cazeneuve, who left the PS following the Nupes agreement, and who launched a movement to rally left-wing anti-Nupe forces.
For Mr. Lacroix, "yes, we need to aggregate and come together".
Bernard Cazeneuve announced this week the name of his movement, launched a fortnight ago: "The Convention". This movement already has nearly 4,000 signatories.
"You made the decision to leave the PS to rise above it, and to ensure that there is a possibility of bringing together women and men who are not in the same formations", greeted M Lacroix .
"Our independence is not our isolation". The PRG, which has 3,500 activists, "will enter into an agreement in its entirety with you", announced the president of the party, who was already the first signatory of the "manifesto", the first rallying initiative launched by Bernard Cazeneuve last September.
Because "faced with the risk of an extreme right in power, it is our duty to build a credible left, which gives confidence", he assured.
He also invited Carole Delga, the socialist president of the Occitanie region, also hostile to Nupes and present at the PRG congress, to join La Convention.
"We have to transform the test, we can't stop there," Mr. Lacroix said again, acknowledging that "the task is immense, I don't know how far it will take us. But by making progress together, by holding hands, we will always go further".
He also announced that the PRG would present a list in the European elections.
For him, "there is no possible escape", so as not to leave the voters "in the clutches of a left which has given up everything, which has given up on the Republic, on the way we are advancing in science and reasoning, and the ability to convince," he said in a review of Nupes.
03/11/2023 19:25:09 - Labège (France) (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
