IHe wants change, and makes it known. François Hollande wants a “new figure” to replace Olivier Faure at the head of the Socialist Party. The former President of the Republic hopes that a new congress can be organized at the beginning of next year.
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Guest of LCP Monday October 7, the former tenant of the Élysée assures that he is not for a revenge congress, that is to say “we are doing what could not be built last time”, implicitly referring to the clash between Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Olivier Faure, narrowly re-elected as First Secretary in 2023 against a backdrop of disagreement over the maintenance of the presence of the PS within the Nupes. “I think that on the line he represents, he will have in front of him an expression of another line. »
To the question Olivier Faure can he stay in place?, the interviewee answers “No, no! I believe that there will be a moment when there will be a confrontation, that within the framework of a congress there will be several motions.” Believing that “political life is made up of successions”, the former president believes that “a new figure is needed to lead the Socialist Party, and to allow this coming together and this opening”.
The shadow of Raphaël Glucksmann
“There are faces. Raphaël Glucksmann is one,” cites François Hollande for example. “The condition is that there is a large Socialist Party,” he insists. “Seven years ago, they were not all convinced that social democracy, that the reformist left, was the path they had to take,” remembers the man who regained his mandate as deputy for Corrèze during of the last legislative elections.
“But for that, the Socialist Party must have a congress fairly quickly,” he warns, before hoping that the event will be launched “before the end of the year, so that it takes place at the beginning next year.” The former president hopes “that this congress will then open the way to a broader gathering, with the friends of Raphaël Glucksmann”. “We will see if it is a confederation,” tempers François Hollande, while the MEP has just made his political comeback with newfound ambitions.
“What I mean is that we must build this force, otherwise there will be no future for any personality who wants to embody the center left, embody the reformist left,” analyzes the former head of state.
The alliance with LFI welcomed
However, the history of the PS does not deny the choice – criticized by some – of Olivier Faure to ally himself, among others, with La France insoumise (LFI) to form the New Popular Front (NFP) last June. “Politics is morality […]. What was at stake in the legislative elections which followed the dissolution? It was to prevent the RN from coming to power. »
“If there had not been the alliance with the ecologists, with the Communist Party, with La France insoumise and with the Socialist Party, but today there would be 50-60 deputies [de gauche] “. “And no doubt the extreme right would have not 150, with its Ciottist friends, but perhaps 250 or 260 [députés]so this union had to be made.” “There was a necessity, otherwise it would disappear. The moral was to prevent the extreme right from coming to power,” insists the parliamentarian.
Guest of Four Truths this Tuesday, October 8 on France 2, Olivier Faure did not react to François Hollande’s comments.
