“We need a new figure to lead the Socialist Party to allow this gathering and this opening” towards Place publique and the social democratic left, believes the deputy for Corrèze, while the PS is currently led by Olivier Faure.
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François Hollande spoke out, Monday October 7 on LCP, for a new congress of the Socialist Party at the start of 2025, saying he hoped that the current first secretary Olivier Faure would be replaced. This congress, underlines the former president, must “open the way to a broader gathering, with the friends of Raphaël Glucksmann”, the founding MEP of Place publique.
“We need a new figure to lead the Socialist Party to allow this gathering and this opening” towards Place publique and the social democratic left, supported the deputy from Corrèze. “Political life is made like that, of successions”, added the man who led the PS between 1997 and 2008.
The right wing of the PS, fiercely opposed to LFI, is putting pressure on Olivier Faure so that the socialists break with the Insoumis, with whom they are allied within the framework of the New Popular Front. Relations between François Hollande and Olivier Faure have been very bad since the latter launched an “inventory” of the former’s five-year term. But they appeared to be rather cordial again with the return of François Hollande to the Socialist group in the National Assembly in July.
Last week, Olivier Faure, however, echoed François Hollande, who had estimated that the next presidential election would be the “moment of confrontation of the two lefts”. “Perhaps confrontation with the right and the extreme right?” he responded publicly on X.