After Europe Ecology – the Greens and the Communist Party, the leadership of the Socialist Party announced last night that it wanted to lead an autonomous list in the European elections. And if this decision must still be validated by the militants of the PS at the beginning of October, it buries a little more the meager prospects of a common list of Nupes,
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Olivier Faure will have waited a long time before dropping the ax. Despite the final attempts of the “rebellious” to bring to life the idea of a union list, even going so far as to consider a campaign led by the former Socialist presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, the boss of the PS has had to to face the facts: neither the ecologists nor the communists wanted the rally and a list with only the “rebellious” would have set fire to his party.
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Each component of the Nupes will therefore separately test its popularity in the Europeans. Even if rapprochements with other small groups of the left are envisaged: for the PS, it will undoubtedly be like in 2019, with Public square of the outgoing MEP, Raphaël Glucksman. The number two of the PS Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol called – for his part – on social networks for a rapprochement with the new party of the former Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, before being immediately cropped by Olivier Faure.
A PS” divider »
On the side of the “rebellious”, the bitterness is strong: for Jean Luc Mélenchon, the PS ” sectarian ” And ” divider » « makes the popular union pay the price of its internal syntheses “, which end despite everything according to him” clan war “.
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