"Let's block everything on September 10": the French Communist Party and environmentalist Marine Tondelier call for support for the mobilization

The "block everything on September 10" movement is gaining ground on the left, sometimes with reservations. While Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party called last weekend to join the mobilization, the leader of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier also supports her in the daily newspaper Libération on Wednesday, while refusing any "recovery".

"I say to all parties: there is no question of spoiling everything by organizing a flag-counting competition or making the demonstrators uncomfortable because they would feel like they are following in the footsteps of this or that presidential candidate," she insisted.

"The Greens will be involved in all initiatives," she insisted to AFP, but according to her, the ideal scenario would be "for as many political parties as possible and as many trade union, environmental, and social organizations as possible to call for a massive mobilization that completely transcends the usual political divisions."

"Focused and determined" for this political season that begins Thursday with the Ecologists' summer days in Strasbourg, Marine Tondelier pleads in Libération for the censure of the Bayrou government. "The French-style ecology promised by Macron was already unconvincing and ineffective. It has transformed, with the Bayrou government, into ecocide," she declares.

The Green Party MP for Paris, Sandrine Rousseau, had already announced her personal support for the September 10 blockade, stating that "it's the revolt of people who want to live with dignity. That's all."

Among the Unitarians (ex-LFI), who will return to Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir) at the end of August, Clémentine Autain and Alexis Corbière had already called, in a column, for September 10 to be "the beginning of the struggle" for "a dignified and happy life."

For its part, the French Communist Party, which is holding its summer universities starting Friday in Montpellier, will call for "participation in all the mobilizations against the Bayrou project, including September 10."

"We will support the movement, we will be involved," its spokesperson Léon Deffontaines told AFP.

The Socialist Party has so far refused to vote on the majority of motions of censure filed against the government. But "with the budget as proposed by François Bayrou in July, it's a direct and immediate censure," Socialist Party Secretary General Pierre Jouvet said on Europe 1 on Wednesday, judging that "there is nothing to retain" in this budget proposal.

The Socialist Party, which is organizing its summer universities the following week in Blois, should also be "in support" of the September 10 movement, specified Pierre Jouvet.

"We are watching this initiative with great interest. The motivations and methods of operation are still somewhat unclear, but we understand the exasperation behind this movement," confirmed Socialist Party spokesperson and MEP Chloé Ridel on Franceinfo.