left-wing elected officials call to vote for Emmanuel Macron

Left-wing mayors of Seine-Saint-Denis have called for a vote for the outgoing president, believing that with Marine le Pen the inhabitants of the department “will be the first victims of discrimination”, in a column published on the Huffington site on Wednesday. Post.

“We elected, left-wing mayors of Seine-Saint-Denis, warn of the risks of abstention in the second round of the presidential election. We call on the voters of our cities to go to the polls to avoid the worst“, write the 14 mayors from all sides of the left (PS, PCF, EELV, various left) in this forum co-written with the president of the department (PS) Stéphane Troussel.

Seine-Saint-Denis has an abstention rate for the first round of the presidential election of 30.22%, the highest in metropolitan France against 26.31% nationally. Voters overwhelmingly voted for the head of insubordinate France (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon (49.09%) ahead of outgoing President Emmanuel Macron (20.27) and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (11.88 ).

The elected officials of the department believe that if “the policy led by Emmanuel Macron has been a source of suffering and anger among an ever larger part of the population (…) Emmanuel Macron, it is not Marine Le Pen“. “With Marine Le Pen President of the Republic, it would be division, the promotion of a stunted French identity“, they say.

For the mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin (PS) or Bobigny Abdel Sadi (PCF) “Marine Le Pen is an enemy of the Republic, while Emmanuel Macron is a political adversary, against whom it will be necessary to build an opposition“. “With Marine Le Pen President of the Republic, the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis will be the first victims of discrimination and stigmatization“, they say.

They denounce “also the imposture of Marine Le Pen who, under a social veneer of circumstance, plans to weaken social protection, to reinforce inequalities through an unfair tax system, or to exempt the inheritances of the richest“.

According to them, “Sunday April 24, the only way to be sure that Marine Le Pen is not elected is to use the Emmanuel Macron ballot“, conclude the left-wing elected officials of the department.

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