Legislative 2022: how supporters of the agreement with LFI managed to win the support of the PS – Le Monde

The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, during a meeting of the National Council of Socialists, at the party’s headquarters, in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), May 5, 2022. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Moment of history, in the absence of harmony, to the Socialist Party (PS). Thursday evening, May 5, the members of the national council met to decide on the text concluded with La France insoumise (LFI) for the legislative elections. A little suspense lingered, but the work of persuasion had been done in the last 24 hours. Over the course of the interventions, the doubt was dissipated, before finally being lifted at midnight after repeated recounts: the agreement was adopted with 167 votes for, 101 against and 24 abstentions. Read the story: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: behind the scenes of the agreement in principle between LFI and the PS, after long and difficult negotiations With 62.31% of the votes of some 300 members of the party’s parliament, Pierre Jouvet claimed a “very large majority”. “This is the first time that the left has been meeting for a very long time, launched the first secretary, Olivier Faure. We are not irreconcilable, we are even in the process of demonstrating that we are reconcilable. Opponents or promoters of the agreement, none seemed ultimately unhappy with this moment of clarification served on a plate, with strong media coverage, because the headquarters of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) had never seen so many journalists. The management had made the choice of transparency by broadcasting the debates live, a way, she felt, of putting the opponents face to face with their responsibilities. Among the speakers, even opposed to an agreement deemed unnatural and humiliating, none sketched a departure from the “old house”, the words of Léon Blum, guardian of the SFIO at the creation of the Communist Party in 1920, several times cited in the evening. “As a hundred years ago, at the Congress of Tours, we must know who keeps the old house”, launched on her arrival Hélène Geoffroy, leader of the internal opposition to Olivier Faure, deploring a “fractured party”. Olivier Faure replied: “We are going to keep the old house, if you want to keep it with us, you are welcome. ” Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: the agreement concluded with LFI divides the Socialist Party “It’s a moment to pass” Electoral agreement or government agreement, divergent analyzes have been heard. For Senator Laurence Rossignol, “as soon as we accepted the idea that this is not a government agreement, this agreement has some merits: it puts us back on the left and it brings the left back to the country”. For the rest, she seemed to say, everything remains open. “LFI is not the central force of the left, it is just momentarily the dominant force, it is a moment to pass. “Above all, by integrating the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), a suspicion is raised: “Again, we are frequentable, while we were perceived as the creators of macronism. “Olivier Faure abounded:” This evening, it is a moment of clarification, this vote says to which political space we belong, he launched in conclusion. With Macron or with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologists, the communists? We say that we are in a political space which is that of the left and that we will not move from it. You have 54.88% of this article left to read. The following is for subscribers only.