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By agreeing, according to several sources within the PS, to speak with the head of state about the person to be appointed to the post of prime minister, Olivier Faure, the head of the Socialist Party, is making a change of tack.

Indeed, after Emmanuel Macron ruled out on August 26 the possibility of nominating Lucie Castets, the candidate designated by the New Popular Front, the socialists, environmentalists and communists had made it known that they would not participate in new consultations with the head of state (La France Insoumise, for its part, had not been invited).

Olivier Faure, had thus excluded, on August 27 on France 2, from going “accomplice in a parody of democracy” and play “the auxiliaries of a dying macronie”.

Subsequently, the politician came under heavy fire from the so-called “minority” currents of his party, led in particular by the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, and the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who called on him to continue discussions with Emmanuel Macron. “If the left doesn’t discuss, who discusses with Emmanuel Macron? Well, it’s the right. Is that what we want?” This is what the mayor of Rouen asked on Franceinfo on August 30.