Anne Hidalgo calls for a PS congress to “decide between the different strategic lines”
In an interview with ReleaseThe Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, once again expresses “deep anger” against his political family, the Socialist Party (PS), which committed “a fault”According to her, in “prevents[ant] the appointment of Bernard Cazeneuve » in Matignon, then “ that he comes from [ses] ranks “.
“Once again, the leadership has placed its trust in Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We may not agree with Bernard Cazeneuve on everything, but he is a person on the left who would have been able, without the consent of the far right, to unite and potentially propose a government. “, continues M.me Hidalgo. The PS leadership denies this and claims that Emmanuel Macron had never considered appointing Bernard Cazeneuve.
Anne Hidalgo, who is supposed to be in internal opposition to Olivier Faure, current first secretary of the Rose Party, alongside dissidents Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, believes that there is now “an urgent need to hold a congress” of the PS. “First, because the statutes provide for it, but also because it must, with respect for people and ideas, decide between the different strategic lines”argues. The next congress is normally scheduled for early 2025.
Since the Marseille congress in January 2023, a strategic split has divided the party in two on the question of the alliance with La France Insoumise (LFI) and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The line of Olivier Faure, a supporter of the union of the left with the “rebels” and at the initiative of the former Nupes alliance (where the LFI was in the majority), won by a narrow margin (51%) over that of the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, close to Anne Hidalgo and the president of the regional council of Occitania, Carole Delga, and that of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, close to former president François Hollande, all hostile to LFI.
