“Can we get out of this obsessive neurosis on Jean-Luc Mélenchon? » The three candidates for the post of first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, displayed their differences, in particular on Nupes and the alliance with LFI, during a debate on franceinfo on Friday January 6.
The first and second rounds of voting by socialist activists to appoint their new leader will take place on January 12 and 19, before a Congress at the end of January in Marseille.
“I am not the spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, “It’s not the LFI congress here”cropped several times the outgoing First Secretary, Olivier Faure, fervent defender of the Nupes alliance, annoyed to be considered by his competitors as subject to the Insoumis.
From LFI to RN
He notably took the fly when his rival Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, assured that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had “theorized the contribution of the voices of the extreme right to overthrow the government” in the Assembly, implying that the Socialist deputies had let things go for a while.
“You can’t say what you’re saying there. Letting people think that the socialists were able to compromise with the far right”replied sharply Olivier Faure, saying to himself “attacked” and ” angry “.
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The mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol judged this show ” distressing “dropping:
“If we want to bring the left together, we should already think about coming together among socialists. »
“We have the right to confront each other”reacted Olivier Faure, who asked him not to “teach lesson” on the pretext that it would be “in the “at the same time””.
Departure from Nupes vs common candidacy in 2027
Hélène Geoffroy repeated that she would suspend the participation of the PS in Nupes if she won the Congress.
“We are essentially a democratic party. This is not the case with LFI”she said, believing that it was necessary “to re-examine the question of the union of the left” and “reworking the question of gathering”.
For Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the Nupes “is a useful framework in the National Assembly for the groups to talk to each other. But is that enough to win, no”he said, pleading for “States General of Social and Ecological Transformation”.
” I did not understand anything “retorted Olivier Faure. “I don’t know if he is for or against Nupes. (…) How can we announce States General of the left and refuse to be within the framework in which it speaks? »he wondered, saying he wanted a joint candidacy in 2027.
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The Quatennens case
Asked about the return to the Assembly of the deputy LFI Adrien Quatennens, condemned for domestic violence, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol indicated that if he became First Secretary and that the Insoumis sat down again on the benches of Nupes, he would ask the deputies socialists to vote on “our membership of the Nupes in the National Assembly”.
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Without naming names, Olivier Faure then implied that the signatories of his competitor’s motion had been sanctioned within the party for sexual and gender-based violence.
For Hélène Geoffroy, Adrien Quatennens “must not sit”and Olivier Faure recalled that if he had been a socialist, “he would have been excluded”.
