that they voted Olivier Faure or Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, these sympathizers and activists of the North Federation did not expect such a psychodrama. Especially when the stakes are also strong.
by Florence TRAULLÉ (Lille, correspondent)
“We live it very badly, of course”, lets go Ali Laazaoui, secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) of Tourcoing (North). He voted Olivier Faure, like 55.47 % of northern socialists, and does not understand the trial made to his candidate for having chosen the new Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nuts). “It is pragmatism, a simple political agreement, not a merger,” he justifies about this alliance of the left. Mr. Laazaoui is rather on the left of the party, he who has still not digested the 2016 Labor Law, under the mandate of the socialist François Hollande: “I fell from my chair.”
Louisette Rousseau, activist since 2000, and sympathizing for even longer, admits that she “holds good, but it’s hard”. This retiree from Wattrelos, where the PS section has been reduced as a sorrow, hammered that it “wants change” and that it “is fed up with elephants”. Several times, she repeats: “We need a strong left!” And, a strong left, a PS which finds a voice, it cannot be the one who “tears in front of the whole of France, where one and the “Other accuse of embezzlement and give the impression that what matters is the post of chef, nothing else”, groans Francis (the people whose only first name appears anonymous), another activist, teacher in priority education zone. He did not vote: “Finished for me, they have all desperate me for a long time.” At the presidential election, he chose Jean-Luc Mélenchon and he still hesitated to join France Insoumise (LFI).
Rémi Boussemart, the head of young socialists in the North, where, he says, the Faure line dominates, blames the other camp: “The Mayer-Rossignol team had the will to throw, immediately, the Discredit on the ballot, because they knew they were going to lose. “The young man says he is” angry “. “When you want to be responsible for a party, you must have clairvoyance and act in responsibility,” he says. The same anger that we find in Véronique, a Lille socialist, who specifies being “of leftist and refounding sensitivity”, named after the orientation text of the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas-Mayer Rossignol. She wants Olivier Faure to have “managed the party despite all that is our history: respect for minorities. Faure has mistreated his opposition”. “50/50 is the worst scenarios. There will always be two parties that will continue to compete,” plans the activist.
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