While the candidate of the Socialist Party for the presidential election must go to Lille Sunday, the first departmental secretary, Benjamin Saint-Oil, announced Friday that he would not sponsor her and left the training.
Le Monde
New blow for the Socialist Campaign Anne Hidalgo. And this time, he comes from his own party. While she has to go to Lille Sunday, February 6 to meet the mayor of the city, Martine Aubry, she was the target of a heavy charge on Friday on the part of the first secretary of the Northern Federation of the Socialist Party ( PS), Benjamin Saint-Oil.
The latter convened the press in the Town Hall of Thémont he directs in order to announce that he will not speak Anne Hidalgo for the presidential election and left the PS, denouncing a “candidacy discredited by the electors on the left themselves. same “. Mr. Saint-Oil made reference to the fifth place of the socialist candidate at the popular primary, behind the MEP Pierre Larroutou (new deal). “I’m afraid for deafness” this election has for the PS a “lethal character”, he insisted.
Beyond Anne Hidalgo and PS, he regrets that the left offers “a desolate show”. “We sacrifice the hopes of the people on the left on the altar of the disunity and the partisan interest. I regret it with bitterness, forcefully. I no longer accept this game of duperie where we make the activists believe that everything will be fine, “he then tacled.
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Benjamin Saint-Oil judges therefore that “say stop, being faithful to his values”, and called to “create the conditions of the gathering” on the left. If it critic “the methodological assembly” of the popular primary, won Sunday by Christiane Taubira, the departmental leader of the PS believes that this initiative sent “strong signals”, including “the desire for gathering to which the parties remain deaf” . Mr. Saint-Oil also clarified that he would give his sponsorship to “person” because the left actors “are collectively responsible”.
“No effect”
While at the same time The Twitter account of Anne Hidalgo Relayed elected tweets that brought her sponsorship, Martine Aubry was trying to minimize this departure and two-month charge of the presidential election. According to the Mayor of Lille, addressing the France-Presse agency (AFP), it will have “no effects” on the campaign of M me hidalgo.
The secretary – who also directed the Republican and Ecological Left Opposition Group at the Hauts-de-France Regional Council – “never fully took office, probably because overloaded. It did not stop The Federation of Working “, she continued, adding that Mr. Saint-Oil had never mentioned” political problems or differences “.
This is a “brutal, unconcultable decision, what I regret,” said AFP Patrick Kanner, Senator PS from the North. “It’s an important political event but will be overcome within seventy-two hours” with the Federal Council meeting, however, nuanced. Who will however remain as an additional episode in a cross-country campaign for Anne Hidalgo.