On the initiative of this platform published in the “Journal du Dimanche”, the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the adviser of Paris Lamia El Aaraje, close to Anne Hidalgo, and the vice-president of the Occitanie region, Claire Fita, close to Carole Delga.
Le Monde with AFP
A hundred and fifty PS executives signed in the Journ du Dimanche (JDD) dated October 2 a column called “Refoundations”, a prelude to a “third way”, between the pro-nune line advocated by the first secretary, Olivier Faure, and that of his opponent Hélène Geoffroy, for the next PS congress. The date of the congress will be known at the end of a national party council on Tuesday evening.
The spokespersons for this gallery are the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the councilor of Paris Lamia El Aaraje, close to Anne Hidalgo, and the vice-president of the Occitanie region, Claire Fita, close to Carole Delga.
Neither the mayor of Paris nor the president of the Occitanie region, both refractory to the Nuts, have signed this gallery, but many relatives of the two women are there, like the Senators David Assouline or Patrick Kanner, at the maneuver for this “third way”.
“The challenge of the Congress of the Socialist Party cannot be reduced again to a confrontation of stables for power, nor to a choice of electoral tactics with eyes on the next presidential election”, write the signatories, who “Want to bring the socialists together on the essentials to be able to hope to bring together the left permanently”.
“Impasse”
They emphasize that “the electoral agreement naked was the product of the” comatic “state of the social and ecological left, a unitary electoral response expected by the people on the left in the face of their dispersion, a cyclical response aimed at preserve its presence in the National Assembly and act together “.
But “to regain and create a positive dynamic, hope and conquests (…) We must refound [the left] with audacity and sincerity, and change its current center of gravity which leads it to the dead end”, they add, by proposing “to all the political and committed forces of civil society and social movements, the organization of States General of Social and Ecological Transformation”.
“The French tell us, we are orphans from a credible party on the left, we do not hear you today,” said Nicolas-Mayer Rossignol, defending a “left pro -Eeuropéenne, secular and universalist “, and based on” rurality and local experiences “of the territories led by the left.
He assures that the signatories are “not in the bitterness, nor in the pugilat” against the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, supporter of the Nuts.
Saturday morning, Hélène Geoffroy, the socialist mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin and president of the minority current within the PS, also launched in a text called “Refound, bring together, govern”, the bases of her project to take The party’s head at the future party congress.