The PS congress will take place in 2025, assures the leader of the party whose head is claimed, in particular by François Hollande. They want my place “because we achieved something”.
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“The congress will take place in 2025, as planned by the statutes”, confirmed Thursday October 10 on franceinfo the First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure. But “I am not going to trigger a congress in the middle of a budget debate now,” added Olivier Faure, while he is increasingly contested within the PS.
“We need a new figure to lead the Socialist Party”launched the former President of the Republic François Hollande on Monday. The now deputy for Corrèze who led the PS between 1997 and 2008 spoke out in favor of holding a new congress of the Socialist Party at the beginning of 2025. This congress, according to the former president, must “open the way to a larger gathering, with the friends of Raphaël Glucksmann”. François Hollande thus lines up behind the current opposed to the line defended by Olivier Faure and to the strategy of union with LFI.
“The same people have been saying the same thing for six years”retorted Olivier Faure. “They say it because they want to take the head of the PS, because we have achieved something”he highlighted. “If the Socialist Party were a corpse, no one would want it”, added the party leader. He also defended his “choice” to support Raphaël Glucksmann as head of the list “twice” for the Europeans. “I did this campaign (of Raphaël Glucksmann) more than anyone else within the Socialist Party”while “François Hollande considered that” MEP Public square “was a bobo from Saint-Germain-des-Prés”criticized the boss of the PS.
“We will ensure that the Congress interferes as little as possible and that the French do not have the feeling that socialists spend their lives in congresses”decided the one who has been at the head of the party since 2018, re-elected in January 2023. After the various electoral sequences, out of the question, according to him, “to look at each other’s navel, to hit each other for sometimes esoteric reasons” during “the next six, seven months.” “We held a congress a year and a half ago and then a year before that. Do you know many parties that hold congresses every year? That doesn’t exist”he noted.