Calling once again for the “gathering of the left and the ecology” behind the PS, the party's first secretary, Olivier Faure, largely re-elected on Saturday, said on Sunday that his party was “the surprise” of the presidential election.

In his closing speech of the 79th Congress of the PS in Villeurbanne, he promised activists a campaign for the presidential election "as we have not done for a long time".

An internal vote on October 14

Without ever mentioning the name of the probable PS candidate at the Elysee Palace Anne Hidalgo, who should be invested on October 14 by the activists at the end of an internal vote, Olivier Faure did not hide that he was defending his proposals , like that of a doubling of salaries for teachers. “Education is expensive? Try ignorance! All these children who drop out, who fall into poverty and call on our social systems, those who sink into delinquency, (…) this is the financial and moral debt ”, he replied to the mayor of Paris' detractors. .

After the October 14 vote, “then we will go into campaign.

I will come to do it with you, and we will go where no one is going, ”Olivier Faure told the activists.

“We will occupy the courtyards and the village squares.

We will keep the Republic alive and we will once again make the democratic soul vibrate ”, he declaimed, stressing that the PS was“ the surprise of this deadline ”.

"None of us will be able to govern alone"

"I claim that we have learned from our mistakes, reflected on our project and that we already have a team from France, mayors, presidents of regions and departments, but also officials of the Socialist Party and parliamentarians", already team widely involved behind Anne Hidalgo, he continued. Regretting that the left appears to be “fragmented”, Olivier Faure assured that “none of us will be able to govern alone”. "To win and transform this country, the left and the ecology must come together," he said, as the first round of the ecological primary ends on Sunday.

He reiterated his wish "that the respective electoral results of our formations serve as a criterion to determine who will lead our united forces to victory", considering that "the responsibility rests with the Socialist Party to propose a candidacy" for the presidential election.

"We are proposing a coalition (...) between political families with specific identities, which despite their differences agree on a candidacy for the presidential election, candidates for the legislative elections to bring together a legislative agreement", he said. he continued.

Multiple crises

"Who will still dare to say that the period requires the urgent resolution of crises, ecological, social, health, democratic, and at the same time to refuse the obstacle, to act as if the priority were to count oneself, and not to respond to crises and suffering ”, asked Olivier Faure. "Do you really want to continue with Darmanin, Blanquer, Le Maire?" (…) Do you really want to replace them with Le Pen, Zemmour, Ménard and Dupont-Aignan? », He asked under the boos of the militants.

He proposed "that they be replaced by Carole Delga (socialist president of the Occitanie region), Johanna Rolland (mayor of Nantes), Nathalie Appéré (Rennes), Cécile Helle (Avignon), Nadège Azzaz (Châtillon) ), Valérie Rabault (president of the socialist group in the Assembly), Ericka Bareigts (Saint-Denis de La Réunion) ”.

Earlier, Johanna Rolland, future campaign director of Anne Hidalgo, urged activists to "carry this collective optimism well beyond this congress".

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