The first secretary, fierce supporter of the Nuts, puts his post at stake at the January Congress. During a national council on Saturday, its competitors advocated more distance from France Insoumise.
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The famous currents of the Socialist Party (PS) resurface, and with them the internal debates. Two candidates for the post of first secretary, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy, will face Olivier Faure at the next party congress in January 2023, to try to delight his post. The first round of the members will take place on January 12, and a second vote will decide the two remaining candidates on January 19, before the Congress, 25, in Marseille.
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While the National Council of the Party met on Saturday November 26, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, filed an orientation text, “refoundations”, supported by relatives of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga. He wants to be a “third way” between the outgoing management and the supporters of former President François Hollande. “We are the only novelty (…) the only way capable of gathering all the socialists,” said the candidate.
He advocated “a PS not diluted in an agreement, but engine of the left”, affirming that the Nuts “does not deserve any excesses of unworthiness, or excess of honor. This political framework is useful, but it n ‘is not enough or lasting to win. ” He defended a “humanist left”, “which strengthens and prolongs European construction” – whose modalities are a source of important disagreements in the clouds – and “which does not confuse radicality with excess”, tackling France Insoumise.
“erasure”
Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), supported by the elephants of the PS, like the mayor of Le Mans, Stéphane Le Foll, deposited his text “Refound, bring together, govern”. The one who denounces for four years “the erasure” of the party has promised that she would suspend the participation of the PS in the Nuts, and would reintegrate, in the event of a victory, all the socialists suspended for having refused to participate in the alliance Build around of Insoumise France.
“I hear that the Greens want to cultivate their garden and that Fabien Roussel”, the boss of the Communists, also marks his difference, she said. And to wonder: “It is only us who would be subservient to rebellious France?”
Olivier Faure, who defends the text “to win”, pleaded for the pursuit of the cloud. “How do we build the gathering (…) if we decide to get out of the only place where the left is talking?” He asked. For him, “the reason why we are better heard is that we have said that we belong to the left, unwaveringly”, but “that does not mean that we share everything that is said on the left”, denying to have lost the slightest autonomy since the agreement with LFI, as the Geoffroy camp criticizes him.
Faced with Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, he recognized that “the differences were more subtle” and questioned: “Where are you, when you are neither a cloud nor not a cloud?”, inviting him to clarify his positioning and Saying “ready to synthesize” with his competitor.
Seven general contributions had been presented at a national council in early November, but only those of these three candidates were filed. Olivier Faure managed to rally the authors of four contributions to him, including feminists and young socialists, as well as the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland. At the last congress, in 2021 in Villeurbanne (Rhône), Olivier Faure had won with 72 % of the vote against Hélène Geoffroy (28 %).