Olivier Faure wants to “turn the page” on the divisions and proposes to the left a referendum on the taxation of superprofits

In the Socialist Party (PS), the time has come for appeasement. Gathered in Blois (Loir-et-Cher) all weekend for their summer universities, the Socialists tried to overcome their quarrels, three months after the agreement giving birth to the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes ), highly criticized by opponents of the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.

In his closing speech, Saturday August 27, the deputy of Seine-et-Marne called on the executives and activists of the party “to pass this moment”. “He is behind us. The ballot boxes have spokenhe launched in front of a few hundred people, acknowledging all the same that this agreement could have been a ” trauma “ for the federations which had to withdraw their legislative candidates in favor of the alliance partners.

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The First Secretary then addressed his opponents, calling for “unity” : “Who seriously among us can propose to go back? To do what ? If not (a rally) with the rest of the left, then with whom? If the alternative does not exist, then we must now come together. »

For Carole Delga, “the sequence has passed”

To illustrate this ” new page “ that he calls for, Mr. Faure appeared on Friday with one of the most virulent opponents of the Nupes, the socialist president of the Occitania region, Carole Delga. If she maintains a “difference in analysis with respect to scope and content” de la Nupes, the elected official who saw Mr. Faure twice in July estimated in front of the journalists that “the sequence is passed”. “I have always been at the PS, I never said that I was going to leave the PS”she also wanted to clarify.

In a speech to elected Socialists on Friday, M^me Delga, however, wanted to mark his difference with the method of rupture of the “rebellious” elected officials. Standing on the left “of action, proposal and solution”M^me Delga attacked it in his speech to “the left of the slogan (…) and of the permanent clash”. She also opposed a common list for Europeans proposed by the “rebellious” MP Manuel Bompard. “Melenchon’s project for Europe is not the project of the socialists”according to her.

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Proposal for a RIP on the taxation of superprofits

“Clashes leave traces” recognized Olivier Faure on Saturday morning. However, according to him, the legislative elections have demonstrated the validity of this agreement. “The dissidents [socialistes à la Nupes] were sharply beaten, the PC retained its deputies, the ecologists obtained a group, the PS has a largely renewed group, the rebellious have 75 deputies”, he argued. criticized for having “weakened the identity of the Socialist Party” by allying himself in particular with La France insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Mr. Faure this time took the initiative to propose “to all the parliamentarians of the Nupes to file at the start of the parliamentary term” a proposed shared initiative referendum on the taxation of superprofits.

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