The other Nupes partners will have their eyes glued to the PS this Thursday.

The Socialists are indeed voting to choose their new secretary, between the outgoing Olivier Faure, and two other candidates, Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, with the issue of the party's place in the left alliance.

Artisan, for his party, of this agreement concluded in May between LFI, the PS, EELV and the PCF, Olivier Faure plays in this vote his position but also the future of the union, criticized by his two rivals.

Some 41,000 members can vote for this first round, between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the premises of the sections, in order to choose the next orientation text of the party.

The two candidates whose motions come first will be decided in a second round on the 19th, before a Congress scheduled for January 27 to 29 in Marseille.

The results will not be known until late at night, or even Friday morning.

A deeply divided party

If the Nupes agreement made it possible to keep a group of 32 socialist deputies in the Assembly, despite the historic failure in the presidential election of Anne Hidalgo (1.7%), it also deeply divided the PS, leading to departures , like that, emblematic, of the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and dissent in the legislative elections.

For Olivier Faure, it is necessary to choose "if we are for the gathering without exception with the whole left", in order to propose an alternative facing the right and the far right, or "for withdrawal into oneself".

The deputy of Seine-et-Marne, who can count on the support of many mayors, such as Johanna Rolland (Nantes), and of 45 socialist parliamentarians, does not hide his wish for a common candidate from the left for the presidential election of 2027.

Her rival Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, denounces in the agreement a "subjugation" of the PS to LFI, and wants another union of the left "around a project contract", far from the "noise and fury" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party.

Supported by certain "elephants" of the PS, like the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll and the ex-First Secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, she promises that the party will leave Nupes if she wins.

The third suitor, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, asserts himself as "the only one who can bring together the Socialists", with a "central path".

The Norman elected official, who has the support of Anne Hidalgo and the President of Occitania Carole Delga, describes the Nupes as "a losing agreement" and calls for "General States of social and ecological transformation" to "refound left ".

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