What place for the PS within the French left? The question will be at the center of the debates of summer universities in Blois, against the backdrop of account settlements.
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After working at the Union of the left, will Olivier Faure succeed in maintaining unity in his party? This is all the stake of this return to the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), whose elected officials and activists meet in Blois, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August, for its traditional summer universities.
Nearly four months after the alliance established with rebellious France (LFI), environmentalists and communists for the legislative elections, the new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) will once again be at the heart of the discussions among the socialists. If, for her supporters, she allowed the PS to keep a group in the National Assembly, with 31 deputies, his contemptors always deplore the stranglehold of “rebellious” in this agreement.
During these two days, the socialists will debate their place in this union of the left and the alliances to build: the PS notably invited the presidential environmental candidate, Yannick Jadot, the “rebellious” deputy of Seine-Saint -Denis Clémentine Autain or the Communist Frédéric Boccara.
more nuanced votes
For Jérôme Guedj, PS deputy for Essonne in charge of relations with the Nuts, the first weeks in the National Assembly demonstrated all the merits for the PS of this programmatic and electoral agreement. “Who could have counted three months ago that the PS would have a group in the Assembly, which weighs in the guidelines of the Nuts, which expresses its agreements, its disagreements …”, he questions. An observation shared by one of the new socialist faces, the deputy for Calvados Arthur Delaporte, for whom the beginning of this XVI e legislature “made it possible to show those who thought that the cloud was a circumstance alliance that on the contrary there was a window to build something in time “.
For the two elected officials, the socialist group led by Boris Vallaud succeeded “to assert its singularity” in an intergroup of the Nuts dominated by LFI and its 75 deputies. If the elected officials “rebellious” assumed from the start, on the merits and form, a frontal opposition against government measures, the votes of socialist deputies are more nuanced. They notably voted in favor of the COVID-19 bill and abstained on the text concerning purchasing power, while the other groups in the Nuts have opposed it. “PS deputies played the alliance with the Nuts when necessary and the difference when it was necessary too,” admits the leader of socialist senators, Patrick Kanner, who likes to recall that socialist parliamentarians – deputies and senators gathered-have the largest contingent on the left.
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