Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, in the National Assembly. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, said Tuesday that his party would propose “next autumn” to the forces of the left and to environmentalists “a project” and “a candidacy” for 2022. By closing the national council of the PS which was held in the evening, Olivier Faure indicated that the PS’s project for the presidential election would be presented at its 79th congress, which will finally be held on September 18 and 19 in Villeurbanne, after being postponed at the end of 2020 because of health crisis.
“To have strength, we need a candidacy from our ranks to propose to other forces of the left and ecology. If we have in our midst many talents, candidates I see only one expressing itself and proposing a path, and it is an opportunity for our party ”, he also affirmed. Olivier Faure did not mention any name, but the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is often mentioned as a potential candidate of the PS.
Mélenchon takes it for his rank
He also warned against the division of the left in 2022, which would be “a serious fault”. “There are no irreconcilable lefts”, he said, taking the opposite view of the former PS Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who had said that there were subjects on which the lefts were ” irreconcilable ”. “There is no dynamic to hope for in confusion or aggression” and “all those who seek to divide the left only serve the interests of those they claim to fight”, he also pointed out. keep.
“I hear Jean-Luc Mélenchon vituperating against the” false chips “,” he said, referring to the words of the leader of France Insoumise and declared presidential candidate, who had dealt on May 9 last Greens and socialists of “liars, hypocrites and false chips”, accusing them of not including the rebels in their lists for the regional and departmental June. But “where are the false chips who claim to fight with all their might against the extreme right, but refuse to rule in the second rounds between the opponents in the Republic and the historical enemies of the Republic? White cap and white cap, this is the discourse that leads to the trivialization of the far right, ”he denounced.