The arguments are drawn and the teams are formed as the Congress of the Socialist Party approaches, which will be held from June 13 and 15 in Nancy. In his battle to keep his post as first secretary, Olivier Faure can add a name to the list of his supporters: that of Nathalie Appéré, mayor of Rennes and president of the metropolis. The elected official in power since 2014 in the Breton capital announced this Wednesday, April 16, in a text published on her social networks.
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Support, details the councilor, “to work for a wide, strong and durable union”. First in his party – Nathalie Appéré takes the opportunity to call the deputy Boris Vallaud, one of the chair contenders, to join Olivier Faure in turn. Then with “the whole left and environmentalists”. “A union that gives their place to each, everyone, while not conceding anything, not a thumb of land, to the ultra-liberalism which undermines our social and republican pact. “And the mayor to appeal to a joint candidacy” from Ruffin to Glucksmann “at the next presidential election. “This is the essential condition to win in 2027 and beat the extreme right. »»
Without La France Insoumise
In doing so, the mayor therefore dismisses rebellious France – a strategy for which she herself opts for the municipal elections in Rennes. His support for the alliance with the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon within the NFP in the anticipated legislative elections of June 2024 long. However, she does not join the opponents of Olivier Faure, well left to merge at Congress and favorable to a clear break with LFI. Their main point of disagreement, beyond resentments, relates to the process of appointing the next presidential candidate. The outgoing wishes a primary to the left when his detractors campaign for a appointment within a new federation of socio -democrats.
The mayor of Rennes had already argued Olivier Faure during his re-election challenged in January 2023. “Let me not be told that there are irreconcilable ideological differences to the PS,” she declared at the time. Let us save everyone with the show which takes up, in my opinion, the personal sources of some vis-à-vis others ”. And the mayor then demanded a return “calm”. Should she renew this call in a few weeks? Not impossible, as the PS is used to tearing itself apart during congresses.
