in the aftermath of The municipal elections, the first secretary of the socialist Party, Olivier Faure does not hide his joy. "I'm a happy man, because it has been two years that I fought to ensure that we got with this solution," he said on RTL Monday 29 June, while several candidates of the union of the left and environmentalists have won the city halls of large cities such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg, Poitiers or even Besançon. "This is a victory first of the gathering and the power of social ecologist ", he added.
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"to Build a compromise"
Asked whether he would be ready to follow a candidate from the ranks of environmentalists for president in 2022, he replied : "I am willing to rally behind the one who will embody the power of social ecologist. "" It is not necessary to look at things in terms of the origins of each, the question is not where it comes from but where it's going and where we're going together ", he added about this future candidate. This union could go up to BIA and Jean-Luc Mélenchon ? "The door is open to all those of you open to build a compromise [...], the question is for those who have so far decided to make a band apart ", he noticed.
