Areas of Progress lose fifteen members who refuse to merge with Renaissance.

They refuse to be swallowed by the presidential party. Fifteen members of the Territories of Progress (TdP), the left-wing majority party of Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt, announced on Thursday 17 November that they were leaving the movement in protest at its dissolution under Renaissance. .

Less than ten days before the TdP Congress scheduled for November 26th. “Which should confirm its political fusion within the renaissance”The signatories condemn in a press release Rejection of the current leadership of the TdP on the first project: to participate in the restoration of the social democratic left in our country..

This is an overhaul “the more necessary” that the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) “It does not fit into the legacy of the humanist, secular, democratic and European left, which has strongly marked the French social model with its imprint”say dissidents, including Gilles Savard and Yves Durand, both co-founders of the TdP.

“We are drawing the consequences of this new political landscape to the left of the presidential majority by resigning.”Add signers posing as “Collective of Reformers of Social Democrats”. They promise to start moving closer to the progressive federation launched in early November by Dijon Mayor Francois Rebsamin and former Secretary of State for Victim Support Juliette Meadelle.

“Supporters of the first hour of Emmanuel Macron, we will continue to work towards a broad gathering of all social-democratic and pro-European components of the French left, looking to the future and bringing together the republican forces. The risk of an extreme choice in the next election”The signatories, including ex-MPs Alain Calmette and Gérard Guzes, as well as Roland Rhys, former mayor of Strasbourg, are assured.