After the launch of the LFI European campaign on Saturday March 16, Manon Aubry, the head of the rebel list, is making her first trip this week. And she chose overseas, with Martinique and Guadeloupe as stops. A strategic choice for this party.
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With our special correspondent in Fort-de-France, Aurélien Devernoix
The arrival at Aimé-Césaire airport in Fort-de-France was discreet, but Manon Aubry intends to make herself heard by the French in the West Indies. Because the region, and more broadly overseas, concentrate real European issues, according to the head of the list of rebels: “ Both in social matters against the high cost of living, both for the defense of our public services, and then on the environment. When you have at the same time the European Union which continues to authorize glyphosate, we have learned no lessons from chlordecone. »
Try to mobilize
But we still need to be able to mobilize. In 2019, participation in the European elections capped at 15% in Martinique and in Guadeloupe. Jean-Philippe Nilor, deputy of the Péyi-A party, ally of LFI, puts forward an explanation: “ Europe is experienced as something even further away than France, because the issues are not concretely seen. We hear about European funds here, but it is a kind of nebula which is not clearly perceived. »
“ There are extremely concrete issues »
For the moment, left behind in the voting intention polls, the rebels therefore hope to mobilize more for this 2024 meeting, recognizes Manon Aubry: “ I say it, Martinicans or Guadeloupeans, do not give Emmanuel Macron the gift of your abstention, while there are extremely concrete issues “. Hence this first stage in the Antilles, where Jean Luc Mélenchon had exceeded 50% of the votes during the first round of the 2022 presidential election.
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