The MP of the Group of the Democratic and Republican Left (DDR), the Polynesian Moetai Brotherson, at the National Assembly in Paris, on February 6, 2019. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
A special parliamentary return took place in Cayenne on Monday 9 January. “Parliament has been in Guyana for two days, exceptionally Paris is overseas. We came here to change methods, to be heard. Emeline K/Bidi, MP for La Réunion (Left Democratic and Republican Group, GDR), sums up the satisfaction of the participants: the twelve foreign MPs are present, six others are remotely connected (i.e. eighteen of the twenty-seven elected) considering that they are beginning 2023 her “counter-return” succeeded.
Neither a collective nor a formal intergroup, “it’s a spontaneous movement that arose in response to the government’s contemptuous attitude, an awareness that after an accumulation of decisions we must act together,” explains Moetai Brotherson, East German MP for Polynesia. Chairman of the National Assembly’s foreign delegation, the latter citing “the first amending budget from the term absent the overseas territories”, the appropriations voted for a €220 million increase in its budget, “but swept away from 49.3”. And above all, the electrifying evening of November 24-25, 2022, when the government torpedoed a text adopted in the parliamentary niche of La France insoumise (LFI) on the reintegration of unvaccinated nurses, a hot topic in the West Indies.
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“It was too much. That night had the effect of bringing together all the elected officials,” said Cayenne meeting organizer Davy Rimane (Guyana, DDR) speaking at a press conference in Paris on Thursday, January 12, on the Initiative came back.” For the first time we meet bipartisan, it is a historic signal”, added Olivier Serva (Guadeloupe, Libertés Group, Independent Overseas and Territories).We must be aware of our political weight. Which estimates that the Ultramarines through their agreement “5% of the votes will weigh in the presidential elections”, add the voters of Ile-de-France. A document summarizing the “requirements” will be sent to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in the coming days. It will become concrete Mixing up emergencies (plane ticket prices, reintegration of suspended caregivers, etc.) and long-term issues (“decoloniality”). [sic]hiring preference, etc.).
“The parliamentarians’ approach can be useful if it creates momentum so that our territories become more visible and speak with one voice to the President of the Republic,” comments Gabriel Serville, leader of the Guyana community. As he assembled overseas elected officials on September 7, 2022, Emmanuel Macron told us that the overseas territories had reached the end of a cycle, that the software needed to be changed. The dialogue is engaged, there is a work plan, a dynamic of listening. We will fight to fundamentally change the relationship between Paris and the overseas territories. »
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