While environmental members vote on Saturday to designate Julien Bayou’s successor at the head of the party, Olivier Faure will finally have two competitors in front of him for the post of first secretary of the Socialist Party.
by Julie Carriat and Sandrine Cassini
The new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) turns idling these days. “It is calm,” recognizes Pierre Jouvet, member of the management of the Socialist Party (PS). On the side of rebellious France (LFI), the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard evokes “a wait-and-see period linked to the fact that [their] partners are taken in internal, legitimate debates. It is a bit frustrating, but It is the life of organizations … “Two of the four groups of the left alliance are paralyzed by their congress.
At the PS, the current first secretary, Olivier Faure, plays a re -election far from being acquired. Saturday, November 26, two other orientation texts – in addition to its own – will be officially deposited. The deputy of Seine-et-Marne will therefore have a rival more than at the Villeurbanne congress in 2021, where he had won hands down, with more than two-thirds of the votes. The text “Refoundations”, supported by Anne Hidalgo, brings together a Kyrielle of dissatisfied, accusing Olivier Faure of having the Socialist Party to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The clip is not enough to win the left. It creates a glass ceiling,” justifies its first support, the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, now a candidate for the position of first secretary.
“The left did not win a voice”
Another rival, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), Hélène Geoffroy, carried by historical dissidents of the current first secretary. At the last congress, this current made up of former supporters of François Hollande had gathered 27 % of the vote. Does it come back to vigor? While he was supposed to stay away from the competition, the former Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll would have finally decided to support him. Like the former Minister of Culture of Lionel Jospin Catherine Trautmann and the former first secretaries of the Jean-Christophe Cambadélis party (2014-2017) and Rachid Temal (interim between 2017 and 2018). “We can see that between 2017 and 2022 The left has not gained votes. The problem is not the union, but the project you carry”, justifies the latter, a socialist senator, who draws up a severe assessment of Olivier Faure, under the reign of which the number of activists and elected officials would have dropped, according to his detractors.
While the internal election for the head of the PS will be held on January 12 and 19, 2023 – before the Congress, scheduled for January 27 to 29 in Marseille – the supporters of the first secretary beat the recall to avoid falling under the 50 %bar. A danger taken seriously in Mr. Faure’s camp, because the two rival lists negotiate between them, with the idea of uniting and making it fall. “I chat with everyone,” said, Evasive, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
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