In an interview with the “world”, the first secretary of the PS considers that the pathological research of profit and the hyperconcentration of wealth threaten our social cohesion and contradict the idea of climate justice.
Interview by Sandrine Cassini and Julie Carriat
The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, saw his re -election during the congress scheduled for the end of January 2023, in Marseille. Confronted with two competing candidates, he defends the driving role of the socialists within the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts).
Why do you represent yourself at the head of the party?
The fight of the next five years is simple: it is a question of what will be the alternative to macronist policy. Will it be the extreme right or the left? My conviction is that ecological socialism is the response to the great climate, social, democratic disturbances that we face. What I want is to go and seek victory to change life.
What is ecological socialism?
Where do we come from? Of the synthesis produced by Jaurès, that of the Social Republic. What would he tell us today? That it was unaware of the consequences of human activity on the planet and that it is obvious to add to the initial project the ecological dimension. Get out of productivism. Growth as we know it is neither sustainable nor bearable. We must first define what our common goods are, and give ourselves the means to preserve them. The pathological research of profit, the hyperconcentration of wealth threaten our social cohesion and contradict the idea of climate justice. You have to get things back in order. First the human and the earth that nourishes it.
for five years, how to grow the left? By working with Emmanuel Macron or by irreconcilable opposition?
The French have chosen to deprive Jupiter of an absolute majority. We must assume de facto parliamentarism. In the Assembly and the Senate, we seek to influence government policy. I do not refuse the compromises a priori. But the reality is that the current power has not looked for none since July and has not retained any of our proposals.
will you vote the bill on energies renewable?
The government says it wants to associate us on this project. Everything that goes in the right direction does not deserve blockage, but you have to get out of communication logics. The discrepancy between presidential speeches and the budgetary reality granted to the ecological transition is amazing. Emmanuel Macron is an enarch, he is the man of the big oral. In writing, that is to say in the law, it is very different.
Insoumise France considers that it is necessary to cause a dissolution to accelerate the takeover. And you?
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