“Can we get out of this obsessive neurosis about Jean-Luc Mélenchon?”: the three candidates for the post of first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, posted their differences on the Nupes and the alliance with LFI, during a debate on franceinfo on Friday.
The first and second rounds of voting by socialist activists to name their new leader will take place on January 12 and 19, before a Congress in late January in Marseille.
“I am not the spokesman for Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, “here is not the LFI congress”, repeated several times the outgoing first secretary, Olivier Faure, a fervent defender of the Nupes alliance, annoyed at being considered by his competitors as a subject of the Insumis.
In particular, he took the fly when his rival Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, assured that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had “theorized the contribution of the voices of the extreme right to overthrow the government” in the Assembly, implying that the socialists the deputies had let things go for a while.
“You can’t say what you’re saying there. To suggest that the Socialists might have compromised with the extreme right,” Olivier Faure snapped back, saying he was “attacked” and “angry.”
A “distressing” sight
The mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, described this spectacle as “distressing”, and considered that “if we want to unite the left, we should already think about uniting among the socialists”.
“We have the right to confront each other,” replied Olivier Faure, who asked him not to “teach a lesson” under the pretext that he would be “in the ‘at the same time'”.
Hélène Geoffroy repeated that she would suspend the participation of the PS in Nupes if she won the Congress.
“We are essentially a democratic party. This is not the case with the LFI,” he said, believing that it was necessary to “re-raise the question of the union of the left.”
For Nicolás Mayer-Rossignol, the Nupes “is a useful framework in the National Assembly for groups to talk to each other. But that is not enough to win, ”he estimated, advocating“ principles of social and ecological transformation of States ”. .
“I didn’t understand anything,” replied Olivier Faure. “I don’t know if he is for or against the Nupes. (…) How can we announce the General States of the left and refuse to be in the context in which he speaks?” he asked himself, saying that he wanted a joint candidacy in 2027.
Source: BFM TV
