In two months the socialist militants will choose the political line they wish to give to the Party for the next three years. Three lists should be in the running: that of the pro-Nupes leadership, that hostile to the union of the left and a last which wants to embody a third way, sparing susceptibilities. Because an implosion could take place in the event of victory of the current first secretary, Olivier Faure.
Since May and the agreement negotiated during the legislative elections with LFI, environmentalists and communists, the rag has been burning at the PS. First of all among those who felt aggrieved by the distribution of constituencies but especially among the socialists totally hostile to the idea of going together with the Insoumis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Among them, those nostalgic for the François Hollande period. They form the bulk of the anti-Nupes list led by former minister Hélène Geoffroy. And they do not hide that this 80th Congress of the PS could be their swan song in the party in the event of defeat. A defeat already written, according to a former socialist deputy. ” They will join former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and his project for a new social-democratic party” analyzes the elected, rather favorable to this initiative.
The management of the PS plays the card of serenity
“To every congress or almost, there are threats to slam the door », recalls a socialist leader, who recognizes however that some executives ” will certainly leave but the militants will not follow.” Why ? ” Because their political project is grotesque “, Estimates an Insoumis deputy, “ and above all it has no political space, apart from integrating the left wing of the Macron galaxy “. Still, the departure of supporters of the Holland line would not be trivial, because they weighed nearly a third of the party at the previous congress.
The third way worries “ of a fatal withering of the party to the rose »
” We have alarming feedback from many socialist federations warns former MP Lamia el Aaraje. Hence his decision to engage in the battle for congress with the claimed support of the former presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, and the more tacit support of the ambitious president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga. ” We can be the point of balance, those who bring people together”, asserts this current baptized Refoundations. ” Their idea is like the anti-Nupes motion to unite the left without LFI “, we analyze at La France Insoumise, where we ironically wish them “ good luck ». In the PS, we see a more trivial explanation: They especially want to weigh in the party to obtain elected positions, which they could not have when they left.taunts a national executive.