Fronde of Holland, attempt at unity… What to remember from the return of the PS?

Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, in Blois, August 29, 2020. -

• The Socialist Party held its summer school in Blois, bringing together 2,500 participants from Friday to Sunday, according to management.

• It was an opportunity for Olivier Faure, first secretary, to renew his wishes for a single candidacy for the left and the green people for the presidential election of 2022, while Yannick Jadot (EELV), Clémentine Autain (LFI) and executives of the PCF were invited.

• But this rally was parasitized by the declarations of François Hollande, which tarnished the strategy of Olivier Faure.

Back to school is always full of good resolutions.

The Socialist Party, rekindled by good surprises in the municipal elections, hopes to confirm the dynamics in the next polls and, perhaps, finally get out of its crossing of the desert.

If the Blois summer university gathered 2,500 people this weekend, according to the management, it also showed that the road remains long until the presidential election of 2022. Internal divisions between different generations and the difficulties of building an alliance with The Greens are the main challenges for the leadership of the rose party.

Exit "mediocre calculations" and "individual strategies"?

"We no longer have time [...] for mediocre calculations [and] individual strategies", sermonized Olivier Faure, on Saturday in front of the militants, during this "meeting of the left after".

Based on the success of the left-wing coalition lists in the last municipal elections, the boss of the PS wants to convince to repeat the experience in the regional and departmental elections in March 2021, then in the presidential election.

If Olivier Faure pleaded in Blois for a rally ranging from communists to ecologists through rebels, the case promises to be “complicated”, by the admission of socialist executives.

"There will be no common candidate with rebellious France, nor the PCF, as we know," blows Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, former first secretary of the party, questioned by

The Communists organized their summer university at the same time as the PS, in Malo-les-Bains (North).

On this occasion, their national secretary Fabien Roussel warned the leftist parties: “If [they] think that as in 2017 and 2012, the Communist Party will not present a candidate, I say to everyone: you are wrong.

"

There is little left but the green people with whom the PS could come together in 2022. MEP Yannick Jadot and the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle were also invited to Blois, for an attempt at seduction.

But "The Greens want to acknowledge the fact that they have passed in front of the PS and show that they are the rising force", underlines Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.

"It's the haka before the match, like in rugby, each party pleads for unity in the hope that it will lead to him," he observes.

“Boomers” versus “young scouts”

The strategy of Olivier Faure, who said last June to be "ready to line up behind the one who will embody the social-ecological bloc", has also been mistreated by "elephants" of the PS, until the former president.

"The Socialist Party has a duty to play [the] role of the great central force on the left," François Hollande told the

daily on 

Saturday.

One of his relatives, the former minister Stéphane Le Foll, spoke the same day in 

to assert that "the PS must not step aside in favor of the Greens".

This offensive made the New Socialist Guard cringe.

"I think they are bitter, one like the other, and that bitterness is the worst counselor", loose Pierre Jouvet, spokesman for the PS, regretting to

 of "criticism, but without a clear line ”.

“For five years, I heard François Hollande complain about slingers.

He knows very well that we are meeting at the moment, and he seeks to pollute this event by his position ", regretted Olivier Faure, questioned by France 3."

and young scouts must work together ", learnedly hopes Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.

In the meantime, Olivier Faure wants to launch "in the coming weeks" the construction of a "project that our country needs in the face of the economic, social, ecological, democratic and health crises, which are our daily lives", hoping to bring together the left and green people on ideas.

"With Les Verts, we have some debates and differences on Republic and security issues, but no insurmountable divergence likely to prevent a rally", insists Pierre Jouvet.

“What can block are egos”.

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