The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, judged this Saturday, during the party’s summer school in Blois, that the time had come to “overcome the internal conflict” around the new left-wing alliance Nupes, denouncing “a struggle rearguard” that is approaching in the future congress.
“The debate in this party (about the Nupes), was lively, how could it not be otherwise?” He admitted to the press who brought the will of an alliance with LFI, EELV and the PCF for the legislative elections , faced with the opposition of certain “elephants” of the party.
“It is logical that the confrontation leaves traces”, but “we must turn the page”, he stressed. “Le moment est venu de dépasser ce conflict. Certains cherchent à le maintenir et à organiser un débat d’arrière-garde au congrès”, who devrait avoir lieu en début d’année prochaine, at-il souligné, sans citer de surname.
“We are not opposed just because of the desire to replace this or that”
His hostile opponents of the agreement with LFI begin to congregate for the future congress. The leader of the minority current, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Hélène Geoffroy, has confirmed that she will carry out a project to “refound the party”, and will discuss “with all the sensitivity of the party” to “unify those who they carry the same vision of a central PS”.
“Could it be summed up in something more than Faure? It could,” former PS first secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadelis admitted to the press.
For Olivier Faure, “the vast majority of the activists are in the idea that we must advance in the union”. “They don’t want to know how we get out of the agreement, but how we strengthen it … by expanding it,” he said.
“I appeal to reason. We are not opposed just because of the desire to replace this or that, but we are opposed because we have a political line,” he stressed.
“I said what camp I belong to, it’s the left and ecology. (…) Just, I don’t know how we went from 1.7% (score of the socialist presidential candidate, editor’s note) to 51%”, he continued. .
Asked about the 79 socialist dissidents, suspended for having chosen to stand in the legislative elections against the candidates sworn in by the nupes, he said “not imagine that there are no sanctions at all”, while his opponents demand the end of the process against them. The sanctions will be pronounced by the National Commission of Conflicts.
Source: BFM TV
