Wishes for 2025. The PS du Lot moves away from LFI and mocks MP Aurélien Pradié

Geoffrey Cros, First Federal Secretary of the Lot Socialist Party, presented his wishes to activists and the press, on Thursday January 23, 2025, in the premises of the Departmental Permanence in Cahors

under the gaze of Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure, PS senator from Lot.

Warm atmosphere in terms of reunions, but rather serious and offensive tone, during Geoffrey Cros' speech immediately evoking “a world marked by increasingly violent and deep crises, the rise of far-right oligarchs…” .

Faced with this observation, the First Federal Secretary recalled the urgency of defending peace “and the universal values ​​that bring us together” more than ever. Then the speech got tougher…

Political action rather than postures

The representative of the PS in the Lot deplores the fact that at the national level we focus much more on postures than on substance, while in his eyes the population experiences “a form of fear, the fear that everything will stop, and the great void into which politics would throw France. »

The socialist activist then launched into an analysis of the positioning of the PS on the national political scene. He maintains that the left had no interest in keeping the government in place and asserts that “our place is in opposition.” However, Mr. Cros wonders what interest would there be in systematically bringing down the government, “without having at least fought while there was still time, to wrest from it essential social measures? » Would the PS du Lot, without saying it openly, stand out from LFI, which a few days earlier, through the voice of Thierry Grossemy, took Christophe Proença, the PS deputy from Lot, to task, accusing him of not having voted for the motion of censure carried by LFI? Definitely! A balancing act in any case, insofar as it is not a question of targeting LFI voters, whose ballot paper could prove essential…

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district of the Lot, that Geoffrey Cros, feeling free, shoots his arrows, somewhat acidic:

– “I invite, for example, Mr. Pradié to finally propose a law, and why not a simple idea: establish a minimum service for parliamentarians in the hemicycle. (The compensation would, I believe, justify this effort). It is easy to comment on political life, to denounce a so-called “messy assembly”, but you still have to be there to witness it. With 7 participations in the vote out of more than 600 public sessions in 6 months, or barely 1% participation, it is difficult to convince us.

Whether he wants to present himself as a rebel and reinvent politics, so be it. But the left-wing patriots he has been calling to join him for months will not follow him into a group where words replace action. Politics is first and foremost built in ideas and in the hemicycle, not in posture. » It is not certain that this type of lesson will remain without echo and that when the time comes, the First Federal Secretary of the Lotois PS will be entitled to a return of the favor!

Then Geoffrey Cros touches on the subject of the agricultural crisis by calling for an overhaul of the system, which is “fairer and more remunerative”. Ditto for pension reform, for which he pleads for “no step back”.

The First Federal Secretary ends his speech by referring to the next elections on the calendar, the municipal elections in March 2026, for which, he warns, “everyone will have a role to play”. Really, not before March 2026, the next elections?

PS departmental office: 68 boulevard Gambetta in Cahors, Tel. 09 77 05 99 55.