Nadia Pellefigue, head of the UNE, PS, PRG and PCF list, announced on Monday morning to her running mates that she was withdrawing from the municipal race in Toulouse. The merger with the Citizen Archipelago list should be done but without it and some of its civil society running mate.
It’s the end of the suspense. Nadia Pellefigue, the UNE, PS, PRG and PCF candidate, came third with 18.53% of the votes in the first round of municipal at Toulouse, announced on Monday morning, according to our information, at a meeting with its list, that it was withdrawing from the race at the Capitol. She should take with her some of her running males from civil society. Twenty-five of these running mate, in a tribune broadcast Saturday, supported the top of the list.
Nothing should stand in the way of the merger with Antoine Maurice’s Archipelago list, which came in first from the left with 27.57% of the vote, but it will therefore be without the candidate. The negotiation meeting between lists was scheduled this Monday morning at 11 am.
“I’m sad”
This withdrawal is the epilogue ofa week of tension. Nadia Pellefigue had announced that she was in favor of a union but with a clear sharing of governance: a Mauritius ticket to the Capitol, itself to the Metropolis. A position that she maintained until the last moment and that Archipelago refuses. The Socialist Party is in favor of a merger without this condition and has continued to put pressure on its candidate, including until this weekend.
Nadia Pellefigue announced her decision in the aftermath to Antoine Maurice during a phone call. She then expressed herself via a video posted on the internet, in which she stated that she had “differences and disagreements” with the Citizen Archipelago list, in particular on “questions relating to the economy and employment” or on ” the LGV “. She says she regrets “not having managed to convince Citizen Archipelago of the relevance, of the complementarity of our skills”. “I am sad,” she says, “to see that some have freed themselves from the collective and were able to declare that there was ‘no longer any obstacle to the gathering of our two lists’, even though disagreements still existed on the content and on the form. “
Nadia Pellefigue then indicates that she will “not be an obstacle to the rally” and that she will allow “the union of the left by authorizing my running mounts and running mongers who wish to merge with the list of Citizen Archipelago.” “But personally, I will not participate” confirms the now ex-candidate for mayor of Toulouse. “I make this choice consciously, strong in my convictions and in the way I wish to do politics differently, for people, and not for myself.” She concluded her message by wishing “obviously good luck to Antoine Maurice and his team”.
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