The head of socialist deputies Boris Vallaud announced Thursday, March 13, that he was a candidate for the post of first secretary of the party, to “create this collective that we are missing”, especially in the perspective of 2027.
“I can be this link between socialists who claim not to get along but which I know can work together,” said the deputy of the Landes on France 2, after having published a gallery that laid the milestones of his candidacy. He said he wanted to be “the candidate of the rally”, and that his candidacy, did not aim “to erase heads on the family photo, but on the contrary to adding them”.
It is not according to him an candidacy against the first secretary Olivier Faure, candidate for his succession, but “an candidacy with him, with many others, because I do not want us to live the divisions of the past that sterilize us,” he added, in reference to the last Congress of Marseille, in 2023, which had divided the party in two camps.
“Not one more candidacy”
“I am not another candidacy,” he insisted, but “I can be many candidates” to “create this collective which we lack but which is essential given the period and in the preparation of the deadline, in particular 2027”.
In a column the day before in ReleaseBoris Vallaud called, with around fifty socialists, to a congress of “reconciliation” and “doctrine”, by defending the union of the left “with all force but not at all costs”.
The deputy of the Landes said he was “okay” with the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry who defends a widest possible union of the left, but without the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “It is determined to build an candidacy of rebellious France on the basis of the program of rebellious France. It therefore requires an eminent responsibility for the rest of the left to come together,” he explained, calling for building a program at the service of the popular classes, at the service of those who have only their work force to live “.
In addition to Olivier Faure, his opponent of Marseille, the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, also said he was a candidate, and the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, does not exclude engaging in the battle too.