Should the Socialist Party look for the Union? Yes, respond to the first outgoing first secretary, Olivier Faure, and his rival, the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol, both finalists of the Fist and Rose Congress. But all have a very specific perimeter in mind, which makes the question of the union of the left is the main problem of this internal election, almost two years of the presidential elections.
Call to designate your boss this Thursday, June 5, between 5 PM and 10 PM, PS activists can choose to renew Olivier Faure, who had received orders on April 7, 2018, in the ruins camp left for the term of five years of François Hollande.
Your line? The one to meet at par, but without the rebel France, with which the socialists were allies under their orders during the legislative elections of 2022 and 2024.
The deputy of Sena-Et-Marne considers that the rebel leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be a candidate at all costs. Consequently, he advocates a unity on the non -Mélenchonist left, from the leader in the public square Raphaël Glucksmann to the former deputy of LFI François Ruffin, to present a common candidate.
No “addresses only a left segment”
“If the orientation of Olivier Faure is not the one that this congress wins, the idea of a joint candidacy of the left in 2027 collapse,” estimates the number 2 of the PS and the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland.
In front, his opponents summon him to guarantee a social democratic candidacy for presidential elections, while the first secretary does not make a prerequisite. “We can not only contact a segment on the left, those who are closer to us,” he replied.
One way to challenge your opponent’s strategy. In fact, Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol wants to create a “great socialist party”, bring “those who are in the PS and those who are outside,” such as Raphaël Glucksmann, Benoît Hamon or former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. A much less wide space than the imagined by Olivier Faure.
In addition, the mayor of Rouen considers that a primary of the left “is not absolutely the correct way to do.” “The primary that Faure wants is so little operational, that it will not happen. The true primary is the opinion. The voters of the left will choose the best positioned candidate,” François Kalfon Euroted in the same line said.
The third man, Boris Vallaud, will vote for Faure
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol gathered around him an antifaurus coalition, rejects this term, of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Hélène Geoffroy to the president of Occitanie Carole Delga, who passes through the deputy of Eure Philippe Brun and the major of Saint-Oeen Karim Bouamrane.
Beyond that, of the only strategy for presidential elections, these socialists accuse Olivier Faure of a “clan” management of the party, and “ambiguity” against Jean-Luc Mélenchon and a rebel France, despite the distances taken by the first secretary with the rebel for a few months.
“I do not regret what we did,” said Olivier Faure on Tuesday night during a digital meeting, emphasizing that when the PFN reached the top of the early legislative elections in 2024, “Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol did not consider it as an inept.”
In the race between the two men, Olivier Faure seems to have a step ahead. In the first round, he preceded the councilor of Rouen (40.38%) with 42.21% of the votes. Above all, the third man of the elections, the head of the socialist deputies Boris Valallaud (17.41%), said he would vote for him in an interview with the world, even if he said it was a “personal choice”, without giving voting instructions for his support.
If nothing is done, Olivier Faure’s support expect his champion to succeed in prevailing more clearly than in the Marseille Congress in 2023. During these elections, the latter already faced Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. After a very tight result, the two camps had been destroyed for several days in a trap context.
“It must clearly decide, so there is no possible dispute,” Doyenaba Dib, near Olivier Faure.
Source: BFM TV
