In Nîmes, the left already occupies the land to renew town on the appropriate | EUROtoday

The first to dare to take the microphone is known as Marion Roussel. Aged in forty years, she for the third time attended a screening of the collaborative movie of the Nîmes collective in widespread, baptized If I let you know. This forty-minute medium movie offers the voice to the inhabitants of town. On this Wednesday, May 14 within the night, the Nîmes doesn’t disguise her emotion. “When I hear a mother say that from the 15th of the month, she” eats payments “and that she does not have enough to support the family, each time, it touches me. »»

Since February, Nîmes in common – which brings together a hundred people from the non -Mélenchonist left and the Nîmes not inserted – travels the districts of the Gard prefecture (150,000 inhabitants). On the program: the screening of the film followed by an exchange with the participants. Halfway through the process, around twenty games took place (public projections or apartment meetings) which attracted, according to the organizers, more than 1,000 people.

With its initiative launched a year from the 2026 municipal elections, the left wants to take advantage of a favorable situation in a city yet directed, since 2001, by the right. The mayor, Jean-Paul Fournier (Les Républicains), completes, at 79, his last mandate in pain, with a municipal majority split into two clans.

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