Paris (AFP)
The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure asked Tuesday the question of a change of the name of his party, calling for "to cause a real big bang of the left and the ecology in 2021" in view of the presidential election the following year .
Refusing that the left and environmentalists stand for the ballot "in dispersed order", he said on France Inter that "the socialists themselves must accept the idea of going to the end of their refoundation", while "the cycle opened by François Mitterrand in 1971 is completed ".
It is necessary "without taboo to ask ourselves all the questions", in particular that of the "name" of the PS, a name "today poorly understood, attached to measures, times, and which no longer says what we have become" .
But also "the question of the proper institutions" of the PS, of its "operation, its practices", and of its "project".
Thus "the next eight months must be devoted to defining what we are fighting for, for whom, for what we are still here", before then "bringing together the left", hoped Olivier Faure.
Detailing a roadmap, he proposed that everyone come "with their own project", especially environmentalists, with the objective of "finding areas for agreement", and "if disagreements persist, the French themselves will come. decide ": the" proposals "will be" debated "and" submitted to the French "who, in turn, will be able to say whether they" have better "to propose.
And "if it's better, we'll take what you say," he promised.
Asked about the possibility of a candidacy of the former socialist minister Arnaud Montebourg, he criticized "all those who seek to build not the collective but individual candidatures".
Referring to the declared candidacy of LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he said that "all solitary candidacies are machines to lose".
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