Legislative 2022: the National Council of the PS ratifies the agreement with the Insoumis – Le Figaro

This vote represented the last step before the formalization of the common agreement on the left between rebels, ecologists, communists and socialists. The Socialist Party opens a new page in its history. This Thursday 5 but in the evening, the National Council of the PS approved by a large majority the common agreement on the left carried by LFI for the legislative elections. This was the last validation before the formalization of the “New Popular Union” comprising the rebels, environmentalists, communists and now socialists. This “essential” moment, according to Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the party, was also to make it possible to operate “the clarification” of the PS. “There is a doubt in the public space. The French no longer know who is a socialist. The first event of this clarification is to say this evening that we are in the space of the left and that we will not move there! Olivier Faure, on the other hand, called on those who were no longer there to join Emmanuel Macron. “You are insulting us!”, vigorously interrupted his opponents in the room. ” READ ALSO – Legislative 2022: the map of the constituencies on the left after the common agreement A little earlier in the evening, Pierre Jouvet, in charge of the elections, had launched a mathematically unstoppable argument at him. Without agreement, and given Anne Hidalgo’s score in the presidential election, “only five candidates” Socialists would have been guaranteed to qualify for the second round, according to projections… Senator Laurence Rossignol was also delighted with a “electoral agreement” which is not, according to her, “a government contract”. “And we find our account there,” she judges. The senator also believes that LFI “is not the central force” of the left, but would simply be currently “the dominant force”. “It’s just a moment to pass. There will always be on the left, a democratic left and social progress, ”she predicts. “We find our account there” An opinion far from being shared by Hélène Geoffroy, rival of Olivier Faure during the last socialist congress. The latter sees in this agreement “a form of crushing”. “I do not want our refoundation to be done by denying part of our history,” she lamented, mocking “a parachuting of rebellious candidates into socialist territories for so long”. “If it is recorded, this agreement will remain very permanently in the minds of the French and we will lose our legitimacy!” Thundered Patrick Mennucci, former socialist deputy and adviser to Anne Hidalgo during the campaign. The regional councilor, François Kalfon, judged him that the Insoumis did not share the “universalist” values. “And you, I know you are, comrades, so it will all explode!”, He warned, reassembled. Read alsoLegislative: what the programmatic agreement between LFI and the PS contains The mayor of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, for his part wanted to play the mediators: “No alliance, no agreement will make us give up who we are. We will not become radicals, as the communists did not become social democrats when they joined the PS”, he assured. It remains to be seen how the upcoming joint campaign will unfold as dissident candidacies are expected to flourish in the coming weeks. The socialist senator Rachid Temal has for example already announced that he “will call to vote against” the ecologist Aurélien Taché, ex LREM, who must however receive the nomination of the “New Popular Union”.