David Habib returns to the campaign in Béarn, with the support of Carole Delga
Saturday May 14, the outgoing deputy David Habib (elected under the label of the Socialist Party) launches his campaign for his re-election in the 3e constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. To support her, the president of the Occitanie region, the socialist Carole Delga, moved away from the candidates she dubbed in her vast region for a day. As much “Dissident socialists”therefore, on the sidelines of the Nupes national agreement, exactly as is David Habib, elected to the National Assembly since 2002 on a territory where he took over from the then mayor of Pau, André Labarrère.
” It will be alright “ensures the Monde Mr. Habib, who already wants to be in the post-election period. The candidate is pumped up: “I have always been elected and re-elected for the work done. The challenge of today and Saturday with this meeting [dans la commune de] Mont is how to organize a social democratic left in France. Carole Delga made courageous choices in Occitania, she symbolizes an open social democracy, with fundamental values, such as Europe, secularism, solidarity which still have their place in France. »
“People thank me for re-applying despite pressure from above”continues the deputy, in a new reference to the 3e constituency and in Béarn, before a new nod to his guest, Carole Delga: “Just regarding everywhere, we are fed up with orders coming from Paris who would like to decide everything for us. In our border regions, we are Europeans and I am as much European as I am from Bearn. »
Mr. Habib also mentions a few past and future local issues, such as his amendment to the Hulot law allowing hydrocarbon extraction to continue in Lacq and Vic-Bilh (a thousand direct jobs at stake), avian flu , medical desertification and public services. “In this rural and industrial territory with Lacq, the feeling of marginalization, precariousness or the cookie-cutter formulas of Emmanuel Macron struck. And here, in Mourenx and around, it was Marine Le Pen who came out on top in the second round.he notes.
Michel Garicoïx (Bayonne, correspondent)