“Not only is the PS no longer the dominant star on the left, but it has not given itself the means to become it again” | EUROtoday

LThey chuckle, the others cry. While the members of the Les Républicains Party (LR) got here out galvanized from their congress on May 18, these of the Socialist Party (PS) mine on the eve of the Nancy appointment scheduled from June 13 to fifteen. The first are satisfied that they’ve discovered within the individual of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, the one who will put their aspect on foot and take them from the elimination of François Fillon on the night of the primary spherical of the 2017 presidential election. The second can simply boast of getting escaped the black state of affairs of the earlier congress in 2023, that of Marseille, the place the costs of dishonest had flowered between the opponents.

For the remaining, all of the alerts are in crimson: the PS, which was as soon as the dominant social gathering on the left, solely claims 39,000 members; Its first secretary, Olivier Faure, was re-elected on the wire by 50.9 % of the 24,701 voters, Thursday, June 5, for a fourth time period with out a clear perspective, as a result of on this diminished coaching within the congruent portion and now structured in three currents (Olivier Faure, Nicolas Mayer-Rossign, Boris Vallaud), nobody is robust sufficient to impose his management.

A yr in the past, it was not given to the destiny of LR, whose president, Eric Ciotti, was going to hurry with out shouting within the arms of the National Rally (RN), plunging the heirs of the RPR in a brand new psychodrama which may have been deadly to them. You have to recollect this unbelievable scene of a president disowned by the political bureau of his social gathering, however refusing to make the keys and tenting like a madman within the premises adjoining these of the National Assembly. In distinction, the PS, which had entrusted Raphaël Glucksmann, its ally of public area, the conduct of the European election marketing campaign, was on the way in which to resuming some colours (13.83 % of the votes forged in the course of the election of June 9, 2024) after the heavy electoral setbacks of 2017 (6.36 % within the presidential election) and 2022 (1.75 %).

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