The three candidates for the head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, will debate on franceinfo on January 6, we learned this Thursday from the entourage of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin.
“As Hélène Geoffroy had proposed to the other candidates, a debate will be held on January 6 on franceinfo”, welcomed AFP Hélène Geoffroy’s team, confirming information from the Point.
The maintenance of the party in the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) between rebellious France, the PS, the ecologists and the communists will be at the heart of the debates.
La Nupes, crux of the conflict
Olivier Faure, current First Secretary of the PS and candidate for his re-election, defends the Nupes agreement, which made it possible to keep a group of 32 Socialist deputies in the Assembly, despite the historic failure in the presidential election of candidate Anne Hidalgo ( 1.7%). “How do we build the gathering of the left and environmentalists if we decide to leave the only place where the left speaks to each other? “, he asks. He affirms that the PS is better “heard” since he is in Nupes and denies a loss of autonomy.
Hélène Geoffroy, her historical opponent, has been denouncing the “erasure” of the PS for four years and announced that she would suspend the party’s participation in Nupes if she won, preferring “project contracts” with certain partners. It is supported by socialist “elephants” like the mayor of Le Mans, Stéphane Le Foll.
Membership vote on January 12
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, is supported by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and relatives of the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga. He defends a “humanist left, which strengthens and prolongs European construction, which does not confuse radicalism with excess”, in a tackle to La France insoumise. He considers the Nupes as a “useful political framework”, but “not sufficient or sustainable to win”.
The orientation texts of the candidates will be submitted to the vote of the members on January 12th. A second vote, on January 19, will decide between the two remaining candidates, before a congress from January 27 to 29 in Marseille.