While the construction of the New People’s Union is taking shape between the various players in this left-wing alliance, Socialist Party executives have expressed some doubts. While some have announced their departure in the event of a union, others have offered to think of another strategy.
Bernard Cazeneuve
The former Socialist Prime Minister announced on Tuesday on his social networks that he would leave the Socialist Party in the event of a legislative agreement with La France insoumise, believing that its leaders had “lost their Republican compass”.
Indeed, Bernard Cazeneuve refuses this prospect of agreement, which “would mean the denial of our convictions and the forgetting of our achievements, a breach of our history, a renunciation of the future”.
If he came from the PS, the former minister of François Hollande hopes for the creation of a new formation. “It is up to the socialists, again and again, to rebuild this force which must once again become the pillar of the alternation to which our voters aspire and which our country deserves”, he declared.
Stephane Le Foll
The mayor of Le Mans considers that “another left must be rebuilt” and must “rebuild a political line which is not the one that has been followed for five years”.
Seeing Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “the left of the past”, the elected representative of Sarthe wishes, without union, “to build the left of the future”, he launched on France 2 this Wednesday morning.
As a result, Stéphane Le Foll said he was ready to “lead the campaign” for the legislative elections of the dissidents of the Socialist Party, in the event of his party’s agreement with La France insoumise.
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
The former First Secretary of the party is a fervent opponent of an alliance between the PS and LFI.
Invited on Europe 1 this Wednesday morning, he called on the Socialists to resist to postpone the agreement. “Let there be a breaking line with this integration into melenchony at the next congress,” he added.
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Francois Hollande
The former head of state takes a dim view of this rapprochement. During a speech last Thursday, François Hollande warned against the risk of “a disappearance” of the PS in the event of an agreement with La France insoumise.
According to him, this alliance would be “a questioning of the very history of socialism, of François Mitterrand and his European commitments, of Lionel Jospin and his economic credibility and his social progress”.
Alliance on the left “I think that this agreement will not be accepted. If it is, the PS will have decided to disappear”, accuses François Hollande, who wants “another union” with the communists and the ecologists.
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