Guest of Europe 1, Sunday evening, Olivier Faure says he is fighting to bring "the Socialist Party to the heart of the left", while the former President of the Republic has offered to work on the presidential project.

The first secretary of the PS wishes at the same time to avoid "a sling which would come from those who complained about the rebels".

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Candidate for a second term at the head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure continues to refine his party's strategy for the presidential election.

And the first secretary of the PS does not necessarily count on François Hollande for 2022, without closing the door to him.

"If Francois Hollande wants to contribute with proposals that could allow the left to be true to its promise, I see no problem," he said at the microphone Europe 1 of Wendy Bouchard, Sunday evening.

Warning to anti-slingers

"What I can do is work on the (presidential) project. This is what I will do for the next few months," the former head of state said on BFM TV on Wednesday.

He also considered that "the Socialist Party cannot remain as it is".

On Europe 1, Olivier Faure responds indirectly and denounces those who seek "to criticize a leadership which took over the Socialist Party at a time when it was at its lowest. It was not us who led it to its lowest. I took over this Socialist Party when it was at 6%. " 

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"For two and a half years, I have been fighting to bring the Socialist Party back to the heart of the left, (for) those who have not left and (to show) that the historic project of the left can be renewed, including by ecology. I hope that these people can work and that we are not constantly hampering them. And I would simply like that there is not, in the period which opens, a slingshot that would come from those who yesterday were precisely those who complained about the rebels, "he addressed to the Socialists who had criticized Benoît Hamon or Arnaud Montebourg during the presidency of François Hollande.

"Coalition contract"

For several months, Olivier Faure has been trying to go beyond the borders of the Socialist Party by wishing for a single candidate from the left for 2022. "It would be necessary to be crazy to continue to explain that it would absolutely be necessary to put an end to the deadly duel Macron Le Pen and, at the same time, devote all our energy to dividing us and rolling out the red carpet under the feet of these two, ”he emphasizes.

This gathering of the Socialist Party, La France insoumise, the Communist Party and Europe Ecology-The Greens advocated by Olivier Faure would take the form of a "coalition contract".

"Everyone has their own identity and therefore it is up to everyone to come up with what they are and according to what each brings", he explains.

"What's in the contract is in the contract. Anything that isn't in the contract belongs to another world."