Daniel Cueff or the opportunism at human level!

The release of Daniel Cueff's book "Politics at Human Level" inspires the following reflection, in light of the unfortunate episode of the recent regional elections, which saw the individual lie to his running mates as well as to voters to lend an ecological endorsement to Loig Chesnais-Girard. What if we put an end to all these machinations that only serve to maintain the current centralizing power system? I see only one solution: to regain the sense of democracy and put the Breton people at the center of everything.

I long resisted the urge to express what I thought about the Cueff episode that marked the recent regional elections. What’s the point? I told myself. Then the release of his latest book "Daniel Cueff or Politics at Human Level" prompted me to break my silence. There is nothing shocking about him writing a book to restore his tarnished reputation from this episode. It is in the logic of things. But for him to come and explain to us what politics and democracy are irritates me immensely.

After betraying his running mates and especially his voters by promising that he would not ally with anyone in the second round of the regional elections and doing exactly the opposite in a schemed operation, one must have a lot of nerve to come and explain to us what politics at human level is!

In his place, I would have kept a low profile. So what is politics for Daniel Cueff? It is a democratic posture with beautiful ideas, no doubt, but above all the art of achieving one's ends - power - regardless of lies and little tricks. It’s fair game, one might say. Nothing new under the sun. Some might even see it as political common sense. Why not after all?

Daniel Cueff lets us know that he is not a "professional politician." The least one can say is that he has been practicing it for a very long time and knows all the ropes. One of them consists of calling oneself a "non-professional politician."

The only problem is that this type of behavior undermines citizens' trust in our political leaders. What do we expect from our political leaders? Nothing anymore, alas, because they pretend. They wear a mask. They crawl on all fours to get elected, babble about democracy, and say amen to the political system that expresses the dominant forces. Is it any wonder that abstention reaches new heights during regional elections?

Today in the Brittany region, there is a lot of communication, many selfies, and decisions are followed from Paris, fingers on the seams of their pants. The Brittany region is in the hands of the political forces of the centralizing political system. It serves as a democratic facade for our daily plunder.

I remember when Daniel Cueff announced to his running mates that he was allying with Chesnais-Girard, without even thinking of consulting them, many slammed the door. I have a heartfelt thought for certain personalities from civil society, very good people who wanted to renew politics. I told myself that before making a statement, one should be aware of the written agreement between the two heads of the list.

Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with allying with another party in the second round based on an agreement in which an essential part of your demands is included.

When I asked him to consult the written agreement, I felt him fall apart. There was no written agreement! No thematic agreement or written commitment! They had just negotiated the positions! A Vice-President position for Daniel Cueff! That’s probably what "implicit democracy" means.

Since I am stubborn and curious, I demanded the communication of a written agreement to know exactly what Loig Chesnais-Girard was committing to. I wanted to know if the "Marshall Plan for Languages," most of which came from Breton civil society - a thought for my friend Yannig Baron - and which I had taken it upon myself to promote, would be taken up with specific commitments regarding its many measures.

I eventually obtained a very cursory document. When I read the paper, learning that the Marshall Plan for Languages would be "at the heart of linguistic policies," I confirmed what politics meant for these people! A way to access power and enjoy it. The people? They don’t care.

But I, for some reason, do not accept that we mock the Bretons.

So I slammed the door, making it known in the press.

Of course, the Marshall Plan for Languages, which contained many important things, ended up in LCG's drawer.

It will have to come out one day since it contains everything that could save our languages. But this goal does not interest them much. We can see that from the pitiful results of their never-questioned linguistic policy.

There is another conception of politics, one that I resonate with, which consists of being elected on specific projects with the intention of implementing them. And if for some reason, it has not been possible to carry them out, one accounts for it before the people. This way, we get closer to the essence of democracy, which has been undermined by the Republic for so long.

And above all, this method consists of confronting the real problems of the moment, even if it means fighting against the dominant forces.

I tell myself that this way of doing things - stating specific things and doing what one has said - may be able to reconcile our fellow citizens with politics.

To be honest, Daniel Cueff's fate matters little to me. What is truly concerning is that the little schemes of Loig Chesnais-Girard continue.

Indeed, everything suggests that Paul Molac, who has just launched his movement "Let’s Make Brittany" and is working to rally autonomist troops around him, is allying with LCG even before the first round of the next regional elections. A "Cueffade" but better!

Thus, Loig Chesnais-Girard, who has done nothing for eight years to defend Brittany, could appropriate the concept of autonomy to do nothing with it for another five years. Loig Chesnais-Girard is the man of the PS and thus of the system.

Some will be eager to follow.

Let us ask ourselves why nothing is advancing in Brittany. There will always be people to respond to the call of the system and support it even as it has exploited us for so long and suffocated our languages and culture. He has just significantly reduced the subsidies allocated to the ICB. There is always a good reason: "the Union of the Left" or fear of the RN.

These people will never understand that it is the fed-up with the system and the little tricks that incite people to vote RN.

Loig Chesnais-Girard is the PS, but above all, he is the Jacobin political system at the end of its rope trying to survive and not having much time left. It is still the networks of power that we could talk about for a long time. This system will always serve the interests of Paris and its elites. With him, Brittany will never emancipate and will become the reservoir for tourists and retirees that it is promised to be. It will never be able to defend its fundamental interests, save its languages, or carve its own path.

The goal of the system is to recover vital forces to maintain power at the expense of the people. With Cueff, the system has recovered a bit of ecology. With Paul Molac, it seems that Breton identity is the subject of a recovery to maintain power.

I truly hope that our fears are unfounded. We may see more clearly on June 20 in Carhaix.

If the system is working to recover autonomy, it is because we have already won on this ground. And some would like to serve as a crutch for it?

So let us put an end to this political system and return power to the people!

Rather than boarding a sinking raft, we should think about building a true Breton alternative, viscerally democratic and popular against the centralizing power system.

Let us not forget that formal democracy has never prevented forms of domination.

The PS in Brittany is the world of yesterday! The people no longer find themselves in it.

We have everything to rebuild, starting with democracy.

Yvon Ollivier

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