The former first secretary of the Socialist Party published on the social network Twitter a manifesto supported by 200 socialists from all walks of life to defend the idea of a refoundation of the PS without Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
He won’t let go. Jean-Christophe Cambadélis published a manifesto on Twitter to create a political current between Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Regularly quoted, the rebellious leader is not in his eyes the representative of true social democracy. In his manifesto, he figures at 200 the number of elected socialists, mayors, local elected officials, former ministers and parliamentarians, first federals and leaders who have signed his manifesto. According to him, the left must be “realistic”, not in “renunciation” and “dogmatism”. Its objective is to develop a “new social, democratic, therefore republican, ecological and European contract”. The former first secretary of the PS gives himself a year to develop a “fundamental program” made available to all those who want “a real renewal”.
▶️ We presented to the press the #Manifest “to be a social democrat in 2022” – signed by 200 socialists or former socialists representing 13 regions and the majority of departments-Nouvelle Société, PÔLE #SOCIALDEMOCRAT #Left #Realistic #Program pic.twitter.com/fmcetwGJYT
— Jean-Chr. Cambadélis (@jccambadelis) May 30, 2022
He believes that the legislative campaign does not mobilize the people of the left as it should be the case. “Something is missing to mobilize the people, a practicable, realistic path, a social-democratic left,” he explained.
A left of principles
For this great support of François Hollande, the new page to write for the right wing of the PS must be the search for the “compromise” to defuse the “crises to come”, the reaffirmation of the “market economy” as a “condition” sine qua non to “produce the maximum wealth compatible with what nature can give”, a commitment against “the rupture of social equality” via “redistribution”, or even the “strengthening of the European Union”. He also criticized Olivier Faure for having operated a “substitute for the refoundation”. After the legislative elections, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis gives an appointment to socialist activists on July 16 to follow Carole Delga and Stéphane Le Foll who plan to launch “states general of the left”.