OLIVIER FAURE. Olivier Faure comes first in Seine-et-Marne in the first round of the legislative elections this Sunday, June 12, 2022, wearing the colors of Nupes.
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[Mis à jour le 12 juin 2022 à 21h56] MP PS of the 11th constituency of Seine-et-Marne since 2012, Olivier Faure is seeking a third term to keep his seat in the National Assembly this June 12, for the first round of the 2022 legislative elections. He wears the colors of Nupes. According to estimates by France 2, the candidate came out on top with 47% of the votes obtained at the end of the first round.
Olivier Faure has swapped the banner of the Socialist Party for that of the left-wing coalition: the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). An unprecedented agreement, obtained after tough negotiations, thanks to which Olivier Faure has no competitor from La France insoumise or Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts facing him. A situation that benefits the outgoing MP. With no other left-wing suitor and as the only national figure to present himself in the sector, the boss of the PS hopes to have a boulevard in front of him for the legislative elections.
With this union of the left, which Olivier Faure has defended despite the disagreements and the cracks that have been created within the Socialist Party, the candidate intends to regroup the voices of socialist, rebellious and environmentalist voters and supplant his opponents from the presidential majority. and from the right. A strength on paper but in practice the alliance still has weaknesses, in particular a group of weighty dissidents which has been created in the ranks of the PS despite the warning of the first secretary of the party: all the dissident candidates will be excluded from the left.
Nupes candidate for the legislative elections, Olivier Faure’s about-face?
The PS continues to lose strength and the presidential election of 2022 was close to being a fatal blow for the party of the left. With less than 2% of the votes collected by Anne Hidalgo against 21.95% for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the balance of power has reversed and rebellious France has established itself as the new first force on the left. At the dawn of the legislative elections, Olivier Faure had two options: to continue the political fight alone and to count on the local presence of the PS to remain present in the hemicycle or to join the alliance of the left and benefit from the pools of votes of the voters socialists, ecologists and above all rebellious. The boss of the PS made the choice of security by presenting his candidates under the Nupes banner rather than that of the PS against the advice of the tenors of the left who saw in this alliance the “death” and the “submission” of the PS to the radicalism of the rebels.
“There is no submission to the Insoumis (…), there is an agreement, a desire to build a coalition, it is not a submission”, contradicted Olivier Faure on BFM TV on May 5 when the agreement was signed. And to add: “The points of convergence are so numerous that it would be crazy to miss out and consider that because we have disagreements, we cannot govern together”. However many socialists are not of this opinion, judge the differences between PS and LFI too deep and believe that they relate to the fundamental values of the party, starting with Europe. Olivier Faure, himself, was one of those when he became head of the party and ensured that the PS was the force around which the left had to revolve to access responsibilities.
Olivier Faure, maker of the end of the PS?
“When the Socialist Party disappears, the whole left disappears. Only it can make the connection between the demands of the center-left and the left of the left”, assured Olivier Faure in 2018. Four years later, these convictions have lost their force and the first secretary of the PS has lined up behind the rebellious left of France by signing the coalition agreement. The main lines of the alliance program are those of LFI, the majority of constituencies go to the LFI candidates – more than 300 against 70 for the Socialists – and especially in the event of a majority the signatories have agreed to defend the appointment of Jean-Luc Mélenchon as Prime Minister.
Olivier Faure’s decision aroused the anger of right-wing heavyweights like the former President of the Republic, François Hollande, who was once the mentor of the PS boss. Within the political family disagreements have grown to the point that some have promised dissident candidacies under the label of the PS such as the Nupes nominations. Sign that a point of no return has been reached: Olivier Faure assured that dissident candidates would be excluded from the party, adding to the weakening of political force. The one who wished[pouvoir] speak to all of these forces” by posing as a leader finally joined the other lefts but without being at the head.
Olivier Faure against the former tenors of the Socialist Party
By discussing and then signing the left-wing agreement with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Olivier Faure has drawn the wrath of his predecessors and former figures of the rose party. Bernard Cazeneuve, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis or François Hollande accused the first secretary of the PS of leading the party to its loss. Critics that Olivier Faure sent back to the faces of his detractors tackling “those people who were in charge of the Socialist Party at a time when it was at its highest…” According to him, being at the head of the party today is no longer so simple because, in addition to keeping the boat afloat, you have to take the blame for what “all the others have done before” it. May 1 on France Inter, the socialist fires red ball on the CICE (tax credit competitiveness employment for companies, editor’s note), on the El Khomri law or the employment of 49.3 … All passed or used during the five-year term of François Hollande . The former tenors of the right did not flinch in the face of the remonstrances of Olivier Faure, hammering that the deputy and boss of the PS “brad[ait] history” of the party, to use the words of the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll, against a handful of constituencies.
Former Aubryste, former Dutchman… Who is Olivier Faure?
Socialist MP for Seine-et-Marne, Olivier Faure is currently president of the “New Left” group in the National Assembly; which brings together socialist and assimilated deputies. He had already taken the head of the parliamentary group in December 2016, after the appointment of Bruno Le Roux to the government. Once re-elected deputy, last June, he had again obtained the confidence of the socialist elected officials. In fact, Olivier Faure is a man of networks, who knows the socialist apparatus from the inside, who has forged lasting relations within the party with the new guard and maintained very good relations with former figures of his family. Politics.
He was not yet 25 when he joined the PS, as a young Rocardian. His first steps in politics, he will do as a parliamentary assistant, with the deputy Gérard Gouzes. In the 1990s, he was ministerial adviser to Martine Aubry at the Ministry of Labour, then deputy chief of staff to François Hollande when the latter was first secretary of the party. Years that he must now remember with ironic nostalgia, since he was then assisting… Stéphane le Foll. With the master of synthesis, he becomes a linchpin within a PS which is about to access the highest responsibilities. He will also be François Hollande’s “Mister Opinion” when he decides to run for president.
When François Hollande accedes to the Elysée, Olivier Faure is elected deputy, in a constituency of Seine-et-Marne. He is also special adviser to the Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault. His positions in the media or in the Assembly, both consensual and marked by good words which he has made his trademark, seduce both the executive and the management of the PS. He was appointed spokesperson for the party in 2014. In this position, he will be able to navigate between the social-liberal line of the government and the increasingly audible disapproval of the slingers. A legitimist through and through, despite his manifest desire to preserve unity and discordant voices, he chose to join Benoît Hamon at the end of the primary on the left.