On the left, parliamentarians go up a « dike » to federate against the extreme right – Liberation
The Republican dam having been abused during the last legislative electionsthere are many on the left to seek a new formula to reconsolidate it and prevent, again, the arrival of the far right in power. This Tuesday, May 20, it was therefore the turn of several leftist parliamentarians, different obediences, to set up and present their « dike » project to the press. Initiated by the ex-socialist-which sits today with the Écolos in the National Assembly-Pouria Amirshahi, the collective offers, in the face of the rise of the extreme right and its network organization, to draw inspiration from the countries where resistance works. « This concern (…) mobilized us with the idea of going to meet those who face, in their countries », Insisting this accustomed to unit approaches since his years UNEF, then his passage to the Socialist Party before a return to politics as a deputy of Paris thanks to the constitution of the new Popular Front in 2024.
By his side, we find in particular the environmental senator Mélanie Vogel, the communist deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Elsa Faucillon or her colleague generation of Ille-et-Vilaine Tristan Lahais. Missing a color for this rainbow on the left: the purple of rebellious France. « Everyone is welcome, sectarianism is our enemy », defends the MP for Paris.
From June, a first series of trips abroad will be organized. Mélanie Vogel will go to Hungary in particular, to the lands of Viktor Orbán, where she will meet Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest. Tristan Lahais will go to Italy in Italy, where the extreme right has been in power for more than two years, under the leadership of Giorgia Meloni, while the deputy Hendrik Davi, former rebellious France, should fly away for Brazil, where the left of Lula returned to power after the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro.
