“Faced with the reactionary project of Pierre-Edouard Sterin, our common good will remain equality” | EUROtoday

“Faced with the reactionary project of Pierre-Edouard Sterin, our common good will remain equality”
 | EUROtoday
The empty headquarters of the billionaire conservative Pierre-Edouard Sterin, who did not respond to the summons of the commission of inquiry concerning the organization of elections in France, in the National Assembly, in Paris, May 14, 2025.

DSeveral years, a charitable occasion entitled The Night of the Common Good settled in our cities. He presents himself as a philanthropic, festive and unifying assembly. It mobilizes patrons, highlights associations engaged in our territories and generates helpful donations. At first look, tough to oppose it. And but …

As mayors, guarantors of republican values, we now have an obligation to transcend appearances. Behind this occasion with a benevolent varnish hides a structured ideological enterprise: that of Pierre-Edouard Sterin, billionaire, tax exile and founding father of the widespread good fund. Far from being a disinterested patron, he’s the creator of a political challenge baptized Plan Périclès, unveiled by the press and a number of other citizen collectives, which explicitly goals to finance and prepare candidates from the nationwide rally and the unconventional proper for the subsequent municipal elections.

Its goal is evident: win the intense proper within the poll packing containers. And the means he mobilizes, particularly monetary, are appreciable. Through donation campaigns, funding for out-of-contract colleges, focused authorized offensives and the coaching of future candidates, Pierre-Edouard Sterin deploys an entrust technique that tries to depend on the associative area to increase the affect of his reactionary concepts.

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