Olivier Faure continues to push in the last straight line. Five days from the first round of the Socialist Party Congress, the first secretary puts all his strength in the battle to defend his evaluation and the union of the non -Mélenchonista went by 2027, with the next presidential elections, where he poses as a potential candidate.
The head of the Socialists multiplies, as its competitors Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Boris Vallaud, trips in socialist federations, while the result of the vote is more than ever uncertain.
With the aim of defending his proposal for a common platform of the non-Mélenchonist left, ranging from Raphaël Glucksmann to François Ruffin, for a joint candidacy by 2027, but without Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the Insumise France, with whom he has distanced himself for several months.
Olivier Faure, who took the front in the PS in 2018 after the ruin field left by the Holland Quinquennium and was one of the initiators of the Noupes of the Alliance in 2022, then of the new Popular Front in 2024, continues to bring the idea of a wide union to the left to counteract “the reactionary and identity wave that increases.”
Vallaud can lose votes
But Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol accuses the first secretary, deputy of Sena-Et-Marne, to lack clarity about alliances to come with LFI.
For its part, it is said that Faire Faire’s camp is “concentrated” and “more organized” than in the Marseille Congress, where the first secretary had been chosen in the cable, and affirms not “feeling a clean wave.” Olivier Faure, however, rejected any televised debate, to disgust his rivals.
And the head of the deputies Ps Boris Vallaud, who dropped the first secretary to embark on the battle, deploreing a “divided” part, runs the risk of losing votes.
Olivier Faure argues to have put the PS “in the heart of the left” (the name of its movement). And if his party operated a change, refusing to censor the Bayroun government in the budget at the beginning of the year, it does not exclude a new censorship soon, in pensions or the future budget.
“One year of the municipal elections, the militants become continuity, with those who have the confidence of other partners to the left,” said Mep Pierre Jouvet, judging that “having a leader who begins to be recognized and respected, that matters.”
Olivier Faure “presidentialized”
Because the head of the Socialists, for a long time in the reserve, has been gradually established in the landscape on the left. More present in the media, multiplied the meetings with the French, and has just launched a book, “look for you again”, where he reveals himself more intimately, notably evoking his father of the extreme right.
“It allows activists, and more widely the French know more in sincerity and deep who it is,” insists Pierre Jouvet. And to refine a stature of presidential, even if the head of the PS denies it.
“He presides over himself,” confirms the president of the Radical Left Party Guillaume Lacroix. “He is convinced that he has put himself in the barium on the left, saying” I am compatible with the extreme left but I do not accept everything “, and” I am compatible with the social democrats, but I do not accept everything. “
Still internally, Olivier Faure is far from being unanimous: his detractors criticize a “clan management” of the party and claim that “he has no ideology, work, or method.”
“He created a climate of tensions and aggressiveness,” says the president of Occitanie, Carole Delga. “What is your political position, nobody knows, it depends on the stations,” he still addresses.
The deputy Arthur Delaport, who has tried his “weakened” image, says, however, that “during the PNF Olivier Faure managed to embody the union rather than during the Nupes” and “now generates militant pride.”
A socialist, who has chosen to support Boris Vallaud, says he is certainly “very attentive”, but “he reached the end of what he could do. There is such an anti-solid hatred.”
Source: BFM TV
