The Socialists now have a text to defend in the battle for the 2024 European elections. First Secretary Olivier Faure presented the Socialist Party’s project on Tuesday evening, proposing to “change the compass” and “shift Europe to another model.” “.
During this national council, the PS unanimously validated a text entitled “moving Europe from neoliberalism to ecological socialism”. A program which proposes to “shake up the liberal purring of European institutions”, through a “break” with the European stability pact, explained Olivier Faure in his speech at the end of a “Europe” Convention at the party’s headquarters.
Raphaël Glucksmann favorite to be head of the list
The first secretary also noted with “satisfaction” that “the delegation that we have formed for five years with Place publique no longer poses a problem for anyone” within the PS, and that “the contested figure in 2019 of Raphaël Glucksmann”, leader of Public square, “is popular today”. The PS has not yet chosen its head of list for the June 2024 elections, but Raphaël Glucksmann should be reappointed to this position.
The socialist program validated Tuesday evening offers “a compass of progress”, which will notably involve “a fiscal package”, by taxing the richest, superprofits and polluting companies, in order to finance the ecological transition, described Olivier Faure.
33 seats to “swing the majority”
Stressing that there had been “a breach” of the liberal model in recent years, for example with “vaccination” during the health crisis, “the recovery plan, the new green deal, the suspension of the stability pact or the tax carbon at the borders”, Olivier Faure assured that his party has “a chance, an opportunity”. “We are 33 seats away from tipping the majority in the European Parliament,” he insisted, calling for “popular education everywhere” to “show what Europe can bring.”
The socialist activists validated at the beginning of October the principle of an autonomous list of their party in the European elections, like the communists and the ecologists, to the great dismay of LFI who wanted a union of the left for this deadline. The PS is currently credited by polls with around 9% of the votes. In 2019, Raphaël Glucksmann received 6.19% of the vote.