Olivier Faure, National Secretary of the PS, during his party's summer school in Blois on August 29, 2020. -

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Olivier Faure wants to continue his "work of refounding" the Socialist Party.

The first secretary of the PS announced on Sunday that he would be a candidate for his own succession at a congress which should take place in mid-December.

"The only winning equation"

At the head of the PS for two years, after the failure of his candidate Benoît Hamon in the 2017 presidential election, Olivier Faure expressed his willingness to play the card of the rally of the left in the perspective of that of 2022. “Now, the time has come for the reaffirmation of our identity, linked to the necessary gathering of the forces of the left and of the ecology, ”explained the First Secretary in an interview with the

Journal du dimanche

.

It is, according to him, "the only winning equation".

“We want to move towards a project coalition today to make a single candidacy possible in 2022,” he said.

The gathering "is not the surrender or the dilution", but "the ingestion and then the digestion of one party by another.

It is the ability to negotiate a contract where everyone is respected for what they bring and where clear common objectives are set, ”explained Olivier Faure.

Win at departmental and regional

Asked about the possibility for the PS to support an environmental candidate in 2022, Olivier Faure insisted on the need to first define "a common project" and then "choose the one who is the best for the 'embody'.

"It is up to each and everyone to show themselves capable of embodying this social, ecological, democratic, feminist and European block", he said.

He hopes to reiterate at the departmental and regional levels in 2021, then in the presidential election, an alliance strategy that has proved successful in the municipal elections.

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