Municipal: from Toc-Toc to Tik Tok

Against a backdrop of debt blackmail, François Bayrou's political hara-kiri has brought down the government and may lead to the final fall of Macronism. Unless yet another scheme to appoint a new government and the political saga ends up disgusting the French with politics... Like the suicide of Emperor Nero, there is a taste of the end of an empire.

"The old world is dying, the new world is slow to appear and in this twilight monsters arise," said Gramsci. The fault lies with the forces of money, which impose the yoke of a war economy with exponential military budgets. And meanwhile, for the people, the program is the explosion of inequality and poverty . With the line of interpretation an obsession with spending and a blindness to the revenues that are the hallmarks of liberalism.

For local authorities, the only horizon we are presented with is that of budgetary austerity. Let us remember that in 2025, local authorities received 105 billion euros in financial assistance from the State, or half of the aid given to businesses , as revealed by Fabien Gay .

Enough to break the Stockholm syndrome in communities sometimes forced to accept the unacceptable. Six years ago, municipal elections were marked by the climate emergency in the wake of COP21. But since then, capitalism, its lobbies, and its reactionary representatives have worked to create a backlash in the battles of ideas.

Ecology, experienced as a constraint, must be replaced by a local and popular ecology combining climate justice and social justice, with our local public energy transition companies, our public water management and our public transport policies as driving forces.

At the end of the Macronist empire, we can also count on the hope, solidarity and resistance of a new generation that is becoming politicized outside of the patterns of yesteryear, through a commitment to the environmental cause, peace, anti-racism or social justice.

The municipal elections of March 2026 , which are the next on the electoral calendar, will thus be an opportunity to take pleasure in campaigning, to listen to our fellow citizens, and to convince, particularly on the ideological battleground of the ^21st century that is social networks.

From knocking on doors to TikTok... We will thus be able to conquer communities that are places of resistance, democratic counter-powers and spaces of social, ecological and feminist struggles to build another model of society.