Who will be the new boss of the PS? In the race, three candidates: Olivier Faure, current first secretary of the party, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, and Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, we learned during a national council on Saturday. They will face each other at the next socialist party congress next January.
The first round of the Socialist deputies will take place on January 12, and a second vote will decide between the two remaining candidates on January 19, before the congress on the 25th in Marseille.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol has presented an orientation text, “Refoundations”, supported by relatives of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga, who wants to be a “third way” between the outgoing leadership and the supporters of former president François Hollande.
“We are the only novelty (…) the only path capable of bringing together all the socialists,” said the mayor of Rouen.
He advocated “a PS not diluted in an agreement, but in a left engine”, affirming that the alliance of the Nupes left, concluded with the rebels, the ecologists and the communists “does not deserve excess of indignity, nor excess of this political framework “. useful, but it’s not enough or sustainable to win.
Disagreements over the Nupes
Hélène Geoffroy, supported by the “elephants” of the PS, such as the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll, presented her text “Refound, reunite, govern”.
The one who has denounced the “erasure” of the party for four years, promised that she would suspend the participation of the PS in the Nupes, and would reinstate all the suspended Socialists, if she won.
For his part, Olivier Faure, defending the text “To win”, pleaded for the continuation of Nupes. “How do we build the meeting of the left and the ecological if we decide to leave the only place where the left is spoken?” He asked.
For him, “the reason why we are heard better is that we have said that we are on the left, inevitably”, but “that does not mean that we do not share everything that is said on the left”, denying that we have lost autonomy since the agreement with LFI .
Faced with Nicolás Mayer-Rossignol, he acknowledged that “the differences were more subtle” and questioned: “Where are we, when we are neither Nupes nor non-Nupes”, inviting him to clarify his position: “Who are you willing to synthesize with? I’m ready to synthesize with you.”
Seven general contributions had been presented during a national council in early November, but only three guidance texts were presented. The authors of the other four contributions eventually decided to join Olivier Faure.
Source: BFM TV
