Legislative 2022: the PS parliament adopts the agreement with LFI by 62%

Published on: 05/06/2022 – 01:15 Modified on: 05/06/2022 – 01:16 Meeting in Ivry-sur-Seine, the Socialist Party parliament voted, Thursday evening, 62% in favor of agreement with La France insoumise for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. An investiture event of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union is to be held on Saturday in Aubervilliers. The vote marks a change of historical direction. After sometimes tense debates, the National Council of the Socialist Party (PS) adopted by 62%, Thursday evening May 5, the agreement with La France insoumise (LFI) for the June legislative elections. The agreement was adopted by 167 votes for, 101 against, and 24 abstentions. Several dozen of the 303 members of the National Council were present – ​​the others participated by videoconference. The debates lasted four hours and alternated supporters and opponents of the alliance with LFI, Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) and the French Communist Party (PCF) for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. “It is a moment of clarification, this vote says to which political space we belong”, “on the left” and not with Emmanuel Macron, concluded the first secretary Olivier Faure from the headquarters of Ivry-sur-Seine. “Mitterrand, that was radicalism, and yet we did it. By dint of saying that we are a party of government, we can forget our own roots, which are partly in radicalism.” investiture of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) is to be held on Saturday in Aubervilliers near Paris. , and justified the past compromises: “It is not necessarily obvious for the last entrants (the PS) not to accept the proposed framework” on the constituencies, the program and the strategy. “According to the list consulted by the AFP, out of the 70 constituencies obtained, a good twenty are winnable.But the constituencies of three outgoing have been sacrificed: David Habib in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Christian Hutin in the North (who did not wish to stand again) and Mi Chèle Victory in the Ardèche. To which is added the 1st constituency in the Loire of Régis Juanico (Generations), which the PS thought of recovering.>> Legislative 2022: an alliance which marks a historic turn for the left Lamia El Araaje, whose election in 2021 was invalidated in 2022, also considers herself cheated, the agreement investing Danielle Simonnet. A motion was passed in the Council to give a mandate to renegotiate in favor of the socialist. An agreement deplored by some of the socialists Despite the support of the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, a historic figure of the PS, the agreement is not unanimous . “The agreement you have negotiated asks us to apologize, to repent, to deny part of our history”, protested the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, leader of the minority current. Jean-Luc Mélenchon must accept insubordination. Be candidates if you wish, that’s insubordination”, thundered the senator of Val-d’Oise Rachid Temal, also opposed to the agreement. The former President François Hollande also “challenged the agreement on the substance and the constituencies”, while his former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve carried out his threat by leaving the party. Another former head of government, Jean-Marc Ayrault, deplored to AFP a “tinkering” and a “form of resignation” which risks fracturing the PS. They are all offended by an alliance with a Jean -Luc Mélenchon historical antagonist of the PS. But also the inclusion in the agreement of “disobedience” to the European treaties in the event of blocking to apply the program, or even many social measures which they consider impossible to finance. With AFP