The signatories of the Nutca program, to which the PS adhered, say they are “ready not to respect European rules when they are in contradiction with the application” of their program. Heresy for Social Democrats.
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Analysis. The tweet, past almost unnoticed, dates back to May 4: “We salute the dynamics of gathering of the French left in which the @partisocialist, with a view to the #Legislative elections.” The Party of European Socialists (PSE) thus reacted to the Constitution of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), which brings together the Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-les Verts and the French Communist Party under the leadership of Insoumise France (LFI) by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Founded in 1992 and chaired by Bulgarian Sergei Stanichev, the PSE, which brings together thirty-four parties, aims “the strengthening of the socialist and social democratic movement in the European Union [EU] and the rest of Europe” .
The membership of the PS, officially always “reformist”, at La Noupes, marks a divorce with the social democratic family. According to the definition of Jacques Delors, former Minister of Economy and Finance by François Mitterrand, social democracy results from “a double compromise between work and capital, the State and the market”. Conversely, LFI is based on a radical rupture with capitalism.
“misunderstanding”
At a time when Sweden and Finland, led by Social Democrats, want to enter the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), the PS joins Mr. Mélenchon, who pleads for France to sort. An earthquake that has aroused many questions and reservations among “brothers” parties, but few public comments, with the exception of Michael Roth, SPD president of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, who exclaimed: ” How can the PS ally with this populist? “
At the Congress of the PS of September 2021, the Social Democrats of Europe shone by their absence. And during the presidential campaign, only the socialist prime ministers Pedro Sanchez (Spain) and Antonio Costa (Portugal) displayed their support for Anne Hidalgo. “There is a form of misunderstanding among our partners, linked to our institutions, observes Gilles Finchelstein, director general of the Jean Jaurès Foundation. Why this election with four towers?” “This will accentuate the isolation of the PS, underlines Alain Bergounioux, president of the University Socialist Research Office, some parties seeing him on the same slope as the Pasok [Panhelllenic Socialist Movement] “, which had sunk in the legislative elections of January 2015, with 4.7 % of the votes.
We are far from the golden age of the end of the 20th th century: in 1997, out of the fifteen EU countries, twelve – including France – were led by social democrats. But a battle then opposed Lionel Jospin, who defended his socialism loudly and strongly – it was the “most on the left Prime Minister in Europe”, proudly said, in 2000, Mr. Mélenchon, his Minister for Education for Education Professional -, at Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder, apostles of a “third way” of opening in the center. A dividing bomb divide. On the left of the reformist parties appeared anti -capitalist parties: Syriza in 2004 in Greece, Die Linke in 2007 in Germany, Podemos in 2014 in Spain. In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected at the head of the British Labor Party on a very radical line, supported with fervor by LFI until his eviction in 2020.
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