The Socialist Party (PS) will convene its national council on Tuesday, October 17 in the evening to discuss a possible exit from the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes) due to the positions of La France insoumise (LFI) on the Hamas, we learned on Sunday October 15 from the party.
This national council could mark the end of the left alliance, if the PS decided to leave this coalition created in May 2022 between LFI, the PS, the Communist Party (PCF) and the ecologists, as several socialists are demanding. It will bring together around 300 party officials and will be held from 7:30 p.m.
It was to take place on Saturday, but the first secretary, Olivier Faure, finally decided to postpone it, “given the dramatic context linked to the assassination” of a teacher by a former radicalized Islamist student, Friday in Arras.
The national council looks tense. Since the refusal of LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and certain officials to qualify the Palestinian Hamas movement as “terrorist”, after his unprecedented attack against Israel, all the internal opponents of Olivier Faure, hostile to the Nupes, spoke out to demand the exit of the PS from this coalition, largely dominated by LFI.
“Moral bankruptcy”
This is particularly the case of the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, who speaks of “moral bankruptcy”from the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who evokes “a misalliance”or even the mayor of Rouen and internal rival of Olivier Faure, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who in fact “a question of principle”.
But Olivier Faure, fervent defender of left-wing union, does not intend to leave Nupes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
After having judged in Release that LFI’s position on the war between Israel and Hamas would have “serious consequences” on the future of the alliance, he hopes that the Nupes can be rebalanced, denouncing “the Mélenchon method”Who “never seek the center of gravity of the gathering of the left” but aims to radicalize positions. “The Nupes as we have known it until today, we think this is the end”said those around him.
The pressure is also increasing since the PCF also seemed to take a step towards leaving the coalition, after having voted on Sunday, during its own national council, a resolution stating that the Nupes had become ” deadlock “ and calling for “a new type of union” from the left.