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’THE NEW POPULAR FRONT IS READY TO GOVERN  
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Lucie Castets
August 30, 2024
Morning Star
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_ Open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime
ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component
parties. _

Lucie Castets, center, the New Popular Front coalition’s choice for
prime minister, speaks beside Green Party leader Marine Tondelier ,
right, and Communist party national secretary Fabien Roussel, second
left, at the Elysee Palace,

 

Last July, you mobilised massively at the polls to refuse the arrival
of the extreme right in power and to break with the policies pursued
for seven years. We thank you for this.

And since then? Nothing. The President of the Republic is
procrastinating rather than drawing the consequences of these
elections. How long are we going to continue as if nothing had
happened at the beginning of the summer?

You have placed the New Popular Front at the top of the poll, without
giving anyone an absolute majority. This result puts obligations on us
all, and first and foremost obliges the one who caused it.

UNFAIR AND IMPOSED POLICIES
The inaction of the President of the Republic is serious and harmful.
Because it highlights his desire to prolong the last seven years of
unjust and authoritarian policies. Because it gives the impression
that the vote would serve no purpose, that all this would be nothing
more than a game of institutional chess.

We are measuring the extent of the distrust expressed today throughout
the country, by you, citizens, leaders of unions, businesses,
associations, collectives, local elected officials. Through
renunciations, decisions imposed against the will of the people, such
as the pension reform, many of you no longer believe in politics.

These feelings fuel the rise of the extreme right that we have fought
and will continue to fight.

The choice of the next government will have very concrete consequences
on the daily lives of each and every one, depending on whether it
continues the austerity “cure” or decides to reinvest in our
public services. Parents need to know if we will give ourselves the
means to put a teacher in front of their child, and to straighten out
the public school system; employees need to know when their salary
will be revalued, after several years of inflation; residents need to
know if their housing can be thermally renovated and if adaptation to
climate change will be accelerated; patients need to know if they will
be admitted to the emergency room if necessary and if the hospital
will have the means to operate; our children need to know if we will
offer them a habitable planet where they can grow and flourish.

NECESSARY BREAK
On all these issues, a break with past policies is necessary. It has
been demanded by voters. This is what a New Popular Front government
will undertake from the first hours of its nomination.

To the voters who have massively mobilised around the New Popular
Front, we say: we are committed to building a fairer, more united
society according to each person’s ability to contribute, in which
work will be better paid, hardship better recognised, public services
rehabilitated and to implementing immediately the ecological shift
that is essential for our common future. A society in which everyone
can have a dignified life.

To the voters who did not vote for us, on the right or the far right,
as well as to those who did not vote at all, we say: yes, we want to
break with the logic of one camp against another and will work
together to build the future of the country and finance public
services.

We are convinced that we will be able to improve the lives of French
women and men in a concrete and rapid manner, and that the absence of
an absolute majority will not prevent us from doing so. Who will
refuse the increase in purchasing power that we are proposing with the
revaluation of salaries and the remuneration of civil servants?

Who will accept seeing the catastrophic situation of public hospitals
continue with emergency services closed in the middle of summer? Who
will resign themselves to a new school year where so many teachers
will be missing in front of our children in primary, secondary and
high schools? On all these key issues, parliamentarians will report
their votes and citizens will be witnesses.

A NEW WAY OF GOVERNING
We are aware of this: we must invent a new way of governing under the
Fifth Republic. Parliament must, in a transparent manner, regain
control of its calendar and calmly discuss the projects and Bills that
will be submitted to it. Social partners must be listened to and
respected. New forms of association of field actors, local elected
officials, associations and all those who bring our democracy to life
on a daily basis must be imagined.

We will also bring French diplomacy to the service of peace because we
cannot accept that disputes are settled by force in Europe and in the
world. We will thus work to thwart Vladimir Putin’s war of
aggression, defend the sovereignty of the Ukrainian people and work
towards a return to peace.

We will act to obtain an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release
of the hostages. And since the President of the Republic himself had
stated that the recognition of the state of Palestine was not a
“taboo for France,” we will act for its immediate recognition,
alongside the state of Israel, on the basis of UN resolutions to move
towards a just and lasting peace.

Finally, we will bring civil peace to New Caledonia by returning to
the reform of the electoral body and reopening a process of
discussion, in the spirit of the Noumea and Matignon agreements.

We are convinced that France can still embody the values ​​of
justice, freedom and openness that have made its history. Hate speech
damages it and does not resemble it.

You spoke out two months ago, now it is high time to take action: as
in all parliamentary democracies, the coalition that comes out on top
must be able to form a government, seek agreements within parliament
and get to work.

We’ve been working on it all summer. We’re ready.

_Lucie Castets, candidate of the New Popular Front as Prime Minister
Manuel Bompard, co-ordinator of France Insoumise
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party
Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists_

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