Legislative: the direction of the PS subscribes to the proposals of LFI

In this four-page text, the Socialists, who began discussions on Wednesday with LFI, present their "responses" to the "twelve markers" discussed by the formation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and make additional proposals "in loyalty to our fundamentals and our priorities, by valuing the convergences and without hiding the differences", they write.

Regarding the "disobedience to the European treaties", which LFI wishes, the Socialists say they are "deeply attached to European construction", and "will refuse (t) to endanger European construction".

But they believe that "the implementation of the program that we are building will necessarily lead to tensions, to finding contradictions, and not to respect certain rules".

"We will be neither the first nor the last to do so, in France as in Europe", they justify, evoking the "need for a break in the liberal course of European construction, for a new project at the service of ecological and social transformation".

"We will oppose, for example, the return of the stability pact, consider that the objective of sovereignty for France and the European Union in many areas makes it necessary to derogate from the current rules of competition and that the conference on the future of the EU must lead to a revision of the Treaties", they continue.

The Socialists also reaffirm "the need for full and complete support for the Ukrainian nation, its freedom and its sovereignty, in the face of the aggression decided by Vladimir Putin".

Regarding "the right to retire at age 60", the PS, which until then was not convinced financially, offers "a first step including taking into account long careers and arduous jobs".

It also validates "the repeal of the unemployment insurance reform and the regressive provisions introduced into the labor code by the El Khomri law (of 2016, under François Hollande, editor's note) and the Macron orders", signed in 2017.

A few days before the deadline for finding a historic agreement with LFI, the PS stresses that "the shared program, based on the real search for convergence, must be the guarantee of a real desire to govern together in the service of the working classes and averages of this country", but "is not intended to make disappear the identity and the political history of the ones and the others".

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