Legislative: Le Foll ready to "lead the campaign" of PS dissidents

Europe 1 with AFP 9:24 a.m., May 4, 2022, modified at 9:29 a.m., May 4, 2022

The socialist mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll said he was ready on Wednesday to "lead the campaign" for the legislative elections of PS dissidents in the event of his party's agreement with LFI, which according to him embodies "the left of the past".

"There is a left that must rebuild itself"

"For all those who are going to be candidates anyway because they will not accept the agreement, we must lead this campaign", launched on France 2 the former minister of François Hollande, headwind from the beginning against an alliance with the formation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"I am campaigning for the legislative elections then I made an appointment on July 16 because I consider that there is another left, there is a left which must be rebuilt and which must rebuild a political line which does not It is not the one that has been followed for five years”, explained Mr. Le Foll, one of the main opponents of Olivier Faure within the PS.

According to him, "the real subject of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the left of the past, so we must build the left of the future".

"If this socialist party continues to be as it is today, with Olivier Faure, it's: + you agree with me, otherwise you leave +, this party which is shrinking, which is stunting, I will of course leave ", he added.

“I intend to lead a political debate”

"But I'm not going to say either: I'm leaving right away, I still intend to lead a bit of a political debate," added Stéphane Le Foll.

However, he did not specify whether he intended to be a candidate for the legislative elections himself, when he had given up his previous mandate in 2018, in favor of his alternate Sylvie Tolmont, to devote himself to that mayor of Le Mans.

Insubordinate France and the Socialist Party have reached an "agreement in principle" on the constituencies, the Socialists obtaining 70, and a "global agreement is on the right track", the PS leadership announced to AFP on Wednesday.

Former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced on Tuesday that he would leave the PS in the event of an agreement with LFI, believing that its leaders have "lost their compass" of "republican socialism".

The Communist Party on Tuesday concluded an agreement for the legislative elections with LFI, joining the ecologists in the "New popular ecological and social union".