Ten days after the legislative elections marked by numerous dissident socialist candidacies, the PS has decided to clean up its ranks. Altogether 79″ renegades » are suspended and risk exclusion. As for the socialist figures who supported them, a reframing is being prepared.
” Nupes lost 16 MP seats due to dissent “, calculated the leaders of the Socialist Party (PS). The national office of the party has therefore decided to take action: suspension of the renegades, then possible exclusion after a case-by-case study. A commission of inquiry will also be set up to determine whether departmental federations have made their financial means available to dissidents.
But it is out of the question to speak of a witch hunt for the socialist leaders: “ We want to do things without brutality, but it’s still the minimum to put people face to face with their responsibilities “Said a party executive.
Also in the crosshairs are socialist figures who have loudly supported the dissidents: former President François Hollande, the disappointed candidate for the leadership of the party Hélène Geoffroy, or even the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga.
Voices that will now struggle to be heard within the party. Many of their supporters are affected by the suspensions and will not be able to vote at the PS congress scheduled for the fall. So no purge, but a gag procedure and a clear choice proposed by management: with Nupes or outside the PS.
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