“Only the union of the left allows victory”, defends Olivier Faure who “does not want to leave power to Marine Le Pen in four years”

“Wanting to destroy Nupes, explaining that the danger comes from our partners when there is the threat of the far right, that’s a problem”, denounced Tuesday, March 28 on franceinfo the First Secretary of the PS, two days after the results of the first round of the partial legislative election in Ariège. The second round opposes a Nupes candidate, Bénédicte Taurine, and a dissident from the Socialist Party, Martine Froger. “Only union allows victory”, defends Olivier Faure, also referring to the presidential election.

“All those who are against Nupes” do not support Bénédicte Taurine, points out the boss of the PS. It targets in particular its vice-president Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol who “frees himself from all the commitments he may have made” after the national congress of the Socialist Party. “I’ll talk about it with him again”, sweeps away Olivier Faure, who calls for the withdrawal of the dissident candidate.

“We need that strength”

The First Secretary of the PS defends Nupes: “We need that strength”he assures. “If today you have a fight in the Assembly on pension reform, it is because there are 151 deputies from Nupes.” Without the rally of the left, the reform “would have been adopted with a majority of deputies from the macronie”, judge the boss of the PS.

Olivier Faure also sees further, until the presidential election of 2027. “When you don’t have the rally, you have defeat at the end and I don’t want defeat anymore”, he repeats. “I don’t want to leave power to Marine Le Pen in four years. I fight every day for the left to be there in 2027.”