the nationwide council of the PS validates its listing led by Raphaël Glucksmann and makes some individuals sad | EUROtoday

The almost 300 executives of the National Council of the Socialist Party agreed, on the night time of Wednesday January 31 to Thursday February 1, on the listing for the European elections and famous the truth that it will likely be led by MEP Raphaël Glucksman.

Socialist activists should now resolve on February 8 on this listing and who will lead it. Their vote will then be ratified on February 10 throughout a Europe conference. It will solely be right now that Raphaël Glucksmann, chief of the Place publique motion, shall be formally invested by the PS.

“We approved our list and the fact that it will be led by Raphaël Glucksmann at almost 60%”, advised Agence France Presse Sébastien Vincini, president of the Haute-Garonne departmental council, who chaired the electoral fee. The listing was adopted by 176 votes in favor, 108 votes in opposition to and 10 abstentions.

The PS is at present credited within the polls with 8 to 10% of voting intentions, or round 10 candidates in an eligible place. Of these first ten candidates, Place publique, which should quickly finalize an settlement with the PS, hopes for not less than three locations, the PS wishing as an alternative to order two for it: that of Raphaël Glucksmann and that of the outgoing MEP Aurore Lalucq, who may end up in 4^e place.

Behind the pinnacle of the listing, arrive particularly the present socialist MEP Nora Mebarek, then the secretary basic of the PS Pierre Jouvet, mayor of Saint-Vallier (Drôme). Followed by outgoing MEP Christophe Clergeau, the mayor of Feyzin (Rhône) Murielle Laurent, the previous MP and husband of the mayor of Paris Jean-Marc Germain, the president of the Young Socialists Emma Rafowicz, the regional councilor of Landes Eric Sargiacomo , and PS spokesperson Chloé Ridel. This listing covers each “the social democratic heritage of European construction”And “new faces” markers “feminist and environmental struggles”greeted Mr. Vincini.

Criticisms in opposition to the composition of the listing

Members of the minority present of the PS, Refondations, near the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the president of the Occitanie area Carole Delga, voted in opposition to, dissatisfied with the place of their candidates.

In an open letter to Olivier Faure, Carole Delga regretted “the lack of territorial openness” from the listing, denouncing “the game of internal arrangements” who has “erased the imperative political necessity to make heard (…) the voices of those who are not heard or who can no longer be heard”.

She known as for a overview of the group's composition. “If our party does not emit a strong political signal and in particular that of making visible all the invisibles of our country, then what is the point? »she commented.

In a statement to AFP, MP Philippe Brun, who was in charge of a mission “so that the Socialist Party regains the confidence of the working classes and the middle classes”he determined to resign from his capabilities, deploring that “the first worker” on the listing both “in 41st position, far from the eligible zone”.

On this listing, “the PS is united in its diversity”assured Sébastien Vincini. “We must not fall into a form of ease in opposing urban France and rural France”added Pierre Jouvet, “rural elected official and proud of it”.