"Three first major conventions will be launched", relating to gender equality - "the PS wants to become THE feminist party in France" -, European issues and the reconquest of forgotten territories and popular categories, indicated the first deputy secretary, Johanna Rolland, during a press briefing.
"For the left to win in the coming deadlines, we need to rediscover the taste for debate on ideas, for substantive debate," she explained.
The mayor of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, who will lead these conventions, told AFP that at least twenty conventions were planned within two years, on ecological transition, security or reindustrialization.
"We have a lot of work to be heard and weigh again," he said.
According to Johanna Rolland, "the harshness of the government's message in this period makes various people want to join the dynamics of the PS".
She notably announced the arrival of people "who undertake to take on responsibilities" within the PS, such as the deputy director of the Rousseau Institute Chloé Ridel, the baker and former legislative candidate (EELV-Nupes) in the Doubs Stéphane Ravacley, or the former confederal secretary of the CFDT Thibault Weber.
For the spokesman of the PS Pierre Jouvet, the objective is to "remake the PS in the months and years to come the central force of the French left", with "a renewed, rejuvenated team, a new generation of elected , activists, prominent outside personalities".
He specified that a site of "transformation" and "modernization" of the party, whose organization dates from the Congress of Epinay, was also going to be launched.
The first secretary "Olivier Faure wishes to see it completed by the end of 2023".
After a congress that plunged the party into crisis and division in January, the PS will elect Saturday the members of its national bodies (National Office, National Secretariat, etc.).
He will also comment on the next partial legislative of Ariège, a divisive subject between Olivier Faure who supports the outgoing deputy LFI Bénédicte Taurine, within the framework of the left Nupes agreement concluded last May with LFI, EELV and the PCF, while the first deputy secretary Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, supports a dissident socialist, suspended by the party for having refused the Nupes agreement.
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