“Makeover” or “aspiration to rally”… The positions of the major figures of the Socialist Party on the agreement
For several days, the Socialist Party has been divided because of the agreement concluded yesterday with La France insoumise. This compromise relates in particular to seventy districts obtained and substantive agreements on the legal retirement age at 60, the minimum wage at 1,400 euros net or even the blocking of the prices of basic necessities. Who is for, who is against within the PS? We take stock, a few hours from the National Council.
- Supporters of the agreement highlight the “aspiration to rally” of leftist voters
Guest of BFM-TV Thursday morning, the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure defended this agreement. According to him, “French women and men have made the massive choice of union” in the first round of the presidential election. Mr. Faure explains that he does not wish “rolling out the red carpet under the feet of a presidential majority which will be the source of serious regressions for the French and the French”. “We have already experienced the unemployment insurance reform. We are now being prepared for the pension reform. »
Thursday morning, the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, also called on the socialists to vote in favor of the agreement. In a press release, the former Minister of Employment and Solidarity says she shares “the proposals for social justice such as the increase in purchasing power, retirement at 60 for all those who have been worn out by work, the defense of public services, in particular education and health, equality between men and women, the development of culture, which are in the agreement with LFI.
Last night, several socialist mayors also came out in favor of this agreement. Among them, Mathieu Klein, mayor of Nancy, Nathalie Appéré, mayor of Rennes, or even Johanna Rolland, mayor of Nantes and campaign director for Anne Hidalgo during the presidential election. For them, this agreement “responds to a deep aspiration of women and men on the left to find a path of hope”.
- Opponents of the agreement denounce “a tinkering”
Among the most virulent opponents of an agreement with the “rebellious” are the former Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll, the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the former first secretary of the PS Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the President of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, as well as the former President of the Republic François Hollande.
All believe that their political line is incompatible with that, considered radical, of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the European Union, secularism, institutions or the question of pensions. It is out of the question for them to support the union led by the first secretary of the PS and to ” to sell “ what remains of their party and its history in exchange for a few constituencies distributed piecemeal by the leader of LFI and his supporters. Mr. Hollande thus informed The mountain yesterday that he « receipt[ait] the agreement on the substance and even on the constituencies”. Mr. Cazeneuve himself decided to leave the PS in the wake of the announcement of the agreement yesterday. In particular, he believes that he « a clear and firm conception of secularism, of the Republic, which prohibits any convergence with those whose thinking on these questions is more than ambiguous”.
For his part, Jean-Marc Ayrault, another former Prime Minister of Mr. Hollande, yesterday described the compromise as «Rafistolage», denouncing the “exorbitant price” paid by the PS, which would be “absent in 500 constituencies out of 577”. “There is a form of resignation that is not defensible”he added.