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With the objective of presenting a text at the next party congress, the deputy for Eure takes up the “line” of Arnaud Montebourg with whom he was close. For the launch meeting, Wednesday in Seine-Saint-Denis, he called on the socialists to follow him in “a “third way”, between pro and anti-NFP.
On the first floor of the Saint-Denis Labor Exchange, the socialist deputy Philippe Brun is stamping his feet. The chosen one has been waiting for this evening of Wednesday, December 18 for weeks. After launching his movement “The People’s Line” in September, this socialist trained by Arnaud Montebourg finally organized his first “large gathering”. Not without stress, particularly for fear of not filling the Marcel-Paul room in the building. “I am not at home here, I am not in control”he whispers a few seconds before making his entrance in front of the public. To the greatest pleasure of the organization, the 400 places are almost all occupied. Partly by 70 “comrades” from Eure who came by bus from his chosen department. But also by several political figures who came to attend the event. In the bays, the president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Troussel, meets the former boss of the Socialist Party Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the ecologist Karima Delli or even the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, also Olivier Faure’s main opponent in the PS. The president of the socialist group in the Assembly, Boris
