La Rochelle (AFP)

The founder of Public Place and head of the PS-PP list to Europeans, Raphael Glucksmann, said Saturday in La Rochelle that only a "passing" parties "allows the left to regain power," thus extinguishing the controversy.

"I want to raise a misunderstanding on recent statements that I have been able to make", launched in front of an almost overwhelming room come to listen to the debate "After the plural left, the left of the common fights?", Organized during the University of PS, first since 2015.

"We must not remove" the political parties, explained the MEP, "however we must be part of a form of loyalty to history that is the ability to go beyond its own structure." "The founder of the Socialist Party is someone who (...) knew how to go beyond structures to create the ideological, cultural, political vehicle that would allow the left to take power" and "we would be well advised to return to this original gesture, "he continued to the applause of the room.

In an interview Thursday on France Inter, the MEP said that "the only solution to propose an alternative to Emmanuel Macron is to dissolve, to overcome the political parties that existed before Emmanuel Macron", so also the Socialist Party. Highly commented comments in the alleys of La Rochelle.

Beyond a "common" project, the question of the incarnation of this rally of the left was also raised during the debate that brought together Ronan Dantec (EELV), Boris Vallaud (PS), Guillaume Lacroix (PRG ), Frédéric Sève (CFDT) and Laura Slimani (Generations).

In an allusion to Bernard Cazeneuve, whose name is sometimes cited to revive the party before the presidential election, Laura Slimani warned: if all these agreements and debates between organizations "ends (s) with a call to reason and the candidacy proposed by a former minister and prime minister of the five-year period Hollande, then we are going to have a small problem of coherence ".

Words as soon as booed by the activists present: "We did not start to gather that you already want to exclude!"

Asked by the press about the ideal candidate to win the presidential election of 2022, the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure said that "whoever it is, none of those (including) Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whoever it is) to the Socialist Party ... Nobody will be in the second round of the presidential election "without a rally.

"I want a candidate who wins and to win, that supposes to gather," he insisted.

"If we do not want to be erased, neither we nor the others, it supposes to be responsible," he pleaded.

"If I had been Yannick Jadot, that's what I would have done, I would have been, in the aftermath of the Europeans, the one who tries to organize the entire left and the ecologists," said Olivier Faure . "Because it was (his) mission and that's how I would have built a leadership," he continued, and "not by saying + I'm all alone, I'm going on, I'm going forward and everyone will follow me. + It never works, it never worked, "he added.

And to conclude: "We ourselves have so many examples in our history, we thought that all alone would be achieved and others would be bent", but, "the addition of the little ones, it's been a while since missing thing. "

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