Not sure that the desired effect is achieved. By gathering the time of a pot in the Senate, from 19 pm, former President François Hollande, former Prime Ministers Bernard Cazeneuve, Jean-Marc Ayrault and Lionel Jospin, the current first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure and his predecessors Jean-Christophe Cambadélis and Martine Aubry, the patron of socialist senators Patrick Kanner wishes to show that we must "still count with the PS for the future". This is why the elephants of the party, those figures that have marked the recent and less recent history of the PS, have been united.
"This is not a renovation conference of the PS, but after the European, where we stayed at 6%, and with the municipalities that are looming and a power in place that wants to demolish the historic parties by conducting an unprecedented operation "The debauchery, the atmosphere is special, describes the senator of the North, contacted by France 24. So we want to show that there is the Socialist Party a story that must be highlighted."
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@ PatrickKanner "This is not a refounding congress of the #PS that will take place in the @Senat Gardens. We do not want to become a small group in the history of the Fifth Republic. "Pic.twitter.com/wswKy6MpeV
The elephants of the PS will meet at the questure of the Senate the current senators and Socialist deputies. Patrick Kanner will say a word of welcome, then the president of the group of Socialist deputies Valérie Rabault will take the floor, followed by Olivier Faure and finally Francois Hollande.
"This is a good initiative because it brings together the socialist family to show that it has a history and a future," told France 24 the former President of the Republic, who recently declared in the JDD to be "convinced that social democracy has a future, provided it is well defined in relation to the challenges of the period ".
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"It's not this family photo that will help Bernard Cazeneuve the best"
So much for the official version. Unofficially, it is said that this communication operation aims to launch in orbit for 2022 Bernard Cazeneuve. The organizer of the reception does not pray to say all the good he thinks of the former Minister of the Interior.
"He is a statesman who can bring a real alternative, he is a man recognized and appreciated by his people but also by the opposition.I see well that his name is consensus, all sensitivities combined, says Patrick Kanner So if this pot enters into a collective dynamic that allows Bernard Cazeneuve to appear as an evidence in the medium term, why not?
Francois Hollande, too, said in the JDD that the last head of government of his quinquennium should "be an important player" in the renovation of a PS that "needs ideas, identity and incarnation."
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As for the main interested party, it seemed, in the evening of the Europeans, to want to take the leadership of the left by calling on Twitter to "reconstitute a social and ecological leftist force that offers France a hope", faced with the "danger of a face-to-face meeting between LREM and the RN ". "I invite those who believe in the humanist left to work on it now," he wrote.
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Bernard Cazeneuve (@BCazeneuve) May 26, 2019In the Socialist Party, it's hard to find a leader excited by Patrick Kanner's personal initiative. The first secretary of the PS, who will be present in the Senate Wednesday evening, declined the request for interview of France 24, as well as several officials and elected Socialists. The sign, no doubt, an embarrassment vis-à-vis a pot whose purpose is to prepare for the future, but which will feature figures dated the PS have all worked with François Mitterrand.
"It's a shot of com 'whose meaning we do not perceive.That's the talk, but it produces what else to scramble our message on our own renewal?", Questioned, on condition of anonymity, a member of the direction of the PS, contacted by France 24. "As for Bernard Cazeneuve, it is not this family photo that will help him the best, adds the same source.This is not to do him a service that to tape it to the last five years and then want to rush into the presidential arena three years before the deadline, it is not necessarily very friendly.