Presidential 2022: delivery of a manifesto from working-class neighborhoods against "discrimination"

“Discrimination and inequality are the common analyzer for all the subjects that the inhabitants have spoken to us about”, underlines the manifesto “Our neighborhoods have a face”, consulted by AFP.

It is the result of a journey that began on October 29 in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) and which crossed around forty cities, at the initiative of the national associative coordination "Pas sans Nous", created in 2014, which collected their concerns.

The participants "highlight the injustices suffered which prove to be structural, discrimination according to the origin of the people and the district of residence", points out in particular the manifesto.

The citizens who expressed themselves "do not always have the impression that the public authorities are tackling the actual mechanisms of the discrimination they suffer and which seems to be accepted", he continues.

One of the problems is that of unsanitary housing, because "poor housing conditions or the absence of housing worthy of the name create the feeling of being rejected by society", supports this text.

Generalizing rent controls, free transport, establishing "priority medical zones" or even making neighborhoods models of energy transition are among the many proposals put forward.

At the end of a day of discussion, the manifesto was given to the ecologist Yannick Jadot as well as to personalities representing other candidates such as the socialist Anne Hidalgo, the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron .