They refuse to be swallowed by the presidential party. About fifteen members of Territories of Progress (TdP), the party of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, located on the left wing of the majority, announced Thursday, November 17 that they were leaving the movement to protest against its dissolution within of Renaissance.
Less than ten days before the TdP congress, scheduled for November 26, “which must validate its political merger within Renaissance”the signatories deplore in a press release the “renouncement of the current leadership of TdP to its initial project: to participate in a refoundation of the social-democratic left in our country”.
This overhaul is “all the more necessary” that the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) “does not fit into the heritage of the humanist, secular, democratic and European left which has strongly marked the French social model with its imprint”say the dissidents, including Gilles Savary and Yves Durand, both co-founders of TdP.
“We draw the consequences of this new political landscape to the left of the presidential majority by resigning”add the signatories, who constitute themselves as “collective of reforming social democrats”. They promise to initiate a rapprochement with the Progressive Federation, launched in early November on the initiative of François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon, and Juliette Méadel, former secretary of state for victim assistance.
“Supporters from the first hour of Emmanuel Macron, we will continue to work towards a broad gathering of all the social-democratic and pro-European components of the French left, looking to the future, and towards a rapprochement between the republican forces against the risk of extreme choices in the next elections”assure the signatories, who also include former deputies Alain Calmette and Gérard Gouzes as well as Roland Ries, ex-mayor of Strasbourg.