The remarks of the president of the Young Socialists Emma Rafowicz, criticizing Sunday the “old” elephants of the party “responsible for our fall”, caused a drama of which only the socialists are masters. Some members of the PS, in particular opponents of the left alliance Nupes, criticized the elected Parisian. During a meeting of Nupes youth organizations in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) to put pressure on party leaders for a union with the 2024 Europeans, Emma Rafowicz felt that he was “not serious to let elephants responsible for our fall decide our future”, denouncing a little further “irresponsible old people”.
“We don’t want to hear from you anymore. You made us lose. Let us win, ”launched this close friend of First Secretary Olivier Faure towards former party members opposed to Nupes, such as former President François Hollande or former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. The mayor of Le Mans and former socialist minister Stéphane Le Foll denounced this Monday “a lack of respect”, on Public Senate. “Today you need people who have experience, and a little grown up, rather than young people who have no respect at all”.
Reread Brassens
“Comrade Emma Rafowicz, instead of insulting” the old people “, I invite you to read Brassens again”, tweeted the first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, rival of Olivier Faure. “Thank you to all the socialists, ‘young’ and ‘old’, who know that time does not matter”. Denouncing a “violent and populist” speech, the ex-MP Patrick Menucci wondered: “Can we be a spokesperson for our party and express ourselves in this way? “, specifying that” the question will be asked Tuesday at the National Council of the PS “.
Others, however, came to the defense of the president of the young socialists, such as the deputy Jérôme Guedj, close to Olivier Faure: “The ‘old people’ rightly pointed out by Emma Rafowicz are the defenders of an old politician, of all ages, who have not understood that the world is changing”. And ex-minister Marylise Lebranchu, also pro-Nupes, tweeted in the direction of the young spokesperson: “Even old people are listening to you. »