Alexis Delafontaine, edited by Thibault Nadal 1:51 p.m., April 12, 2022
After the rout of Anne Hidalgo in the presidential election, with only 1.8% of the vote, the question of the future of the PS arises more than ever less than two months before the legislative elections.
Torn between those who want to preserve the party and those who want to see it disappear, the elected Socialists find themselves at a turning point.
Two days after the debacle of Anne Hidalgo during the presidential election, the question of the legislative elections will prove to be crucial for the PS, whose supporters are now torn between rebellious France and the Republic on the move.
A legitimate concern for the party, given that the mayor of Paris collected only 600,000 votes on Sunday.
Carole Delga wants to see the PS disappear
Today, among the Socialists, two fringes oppose each other: the leaders on one side, with Olivier Faure in the lead.
Their goal is to keep the party as it is, by surviving the legislative elections and waiting for the aftermath of Macron.
Opposite, the young guard is carried by Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region.
It draws up a simple observation: the PS is clinically dead, it must be finished.
Their idea is to build a new left force with the Greens, the Communist Party and the Radical Party.
They therefore want to create a union of progressives with only one objective for the moment: to find a legislative agreement.
But the task will not be so easy, because many see behind Carole Delgala, the hand of François Hollande.
"He uses Carole as a pawn, but he's in charge," analyzes a former socialist minister.
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Finally, remains the most radical solution, an implosion of the Socialist Party, which is "possible", as one deputy explains.