Hélène Geoffroy: “Without the Nupes, we would have been audible”


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Candidate for the post of first secretary of the PS, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin believes that the party will disappear if Olivier Faure wins.




Interview by Valerie Peiffer

The mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Helene Geoffroy.
The mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Hélène Geoffroy.
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Hwill élène Geoffroy be the next leader of the PS? While she had only obtained 27.98% of the votes at the previous congress in 2021, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin wants to believe that her rival Olivier Faure will be in the minority this time. At the heart of this duel in which a third man, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, has invited himself, the agreement creating the Nupes appears to be the key point.

Point : A topical question, is the seizure of government buildings in Brazil by supporters of former President Bolsonaro imaginable in France?

Helen Geoffroy: I don’t think so, but you can never rule anything out. After what also happened in the United States with Donald Trump, this should alert us to the excesses of populism, which dresses in the clothes of democracy to be ra…


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