Counterprogramming. 820 kilometers from La Réole (Gironde), where the leader of the public square, Raphaël Glucksmann, rallies his troops on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 October, Olivier Faure invited himself to Lomme, near Lille, where the socialists of the North They celebrated his political departure. Saturday. The opportunity for the first secretary of the Socialist Party to have his support, make his voice heard and once again mark his difference with Glucksmann and the figures of his own party, hostile to an alliance with the leader of Rebellious France. (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Some, such as Carole Delga, president of the Occitania region, or the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, were also announced at La Réole this weekend. Unlike parliamentarians in the north, local elected officials, including Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille, and activist Patrick Kanner, president of the socialist group in the Senate, will not have had the opportunity to hear Olivier Faure. Shortly before his intervention, he abandoned the PS Norte works to take a train heading… precisely to La Réole.
Before about 150 socialists from the North, Olivier Faure reaffirmed his conviction that the union of the left with the LFI, in the face of high-risk legislative elections, was the only and correct option. “We had to resist, show that the left has not broken with what forms its DNA, which is to fight against fascism with all its strength. We did it and we did well in doing it.”said. Before insisting: “If we hadn’t been there, what would have happened? Today we would have a relative or absolute majority for the extreme right. »
“People who make peace”
Evoking these voters who elected the New Popular Front (NFP) in the legislative elections and today have “the feeling of having been robbed”those who voted against their beliefs to block the national demonstration and “to say that they will not do it again because they subsequently felt betrayed by the head of state”Olivier Faure warns: “There it is, for Marine Le Pen, the path to come to power. »
While the ambitions for the 2027 presidential elections are becoming less hidden, on both the right and the left, and are even declared openly, Olivier Faure is not going to avoid the issue. On Saturday he asked “The one who best embodies the left and the environmentalists will be our common candidate.” Get it: without automatically lining up behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon. On September 28, in an interview with Western FranceMr. Faure had estimated that the LFI leader could not “ to be the candidate of the entire left » and had raised the possibility of organizing primaries to designate a single candidate for all NFP formations.
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