socialist activists validate the party’s autonomous list

They imitate their allies from the PCF and EELV, to the great dismay of LFI which wants a union of the left. Socialist activists validated, Thursday, October 5 in the evening, the autonomous list of their party for the next European elections. The outcome of the vote, organized from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the party sections, was in no doubt: the strategic orientation text on which the activists voted was unanimously adopted last month by the Party executives. socialist, united in national office. “On Thursday October 5, at 11:30 p.m., on more than 60% of the ballots counted, the two texts were adopted by more than 90% of the votes”, reported the PS in a press release sent to AFP. The final results will be known on Friday 6 and officially ratified at a convention on Saturday 14 October.

Socialist activists also voted to ratify the programmatic content of the European project. The latter can still be subject to amendments by the federations. The three currents of the party (that of the first secretary Olivier Faure, majority and pro-Nupes, and those of his opponents Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy, hostile to the Nupes) managed to agree on the strategy, with the editorial of a compromise.

Raphaël Glucksmann, “natural candidate”

MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the small political movement Place publique, is among the favorites to take the lead in the socialist list, as he did in 2019. “We’re not saying it yet at this stage, but it’s no big mystery that he will be the natural candidate”recently confided a socialist leader to AFP. “We can lead battles in the European Parliament together on ecological and social issues, but we do not have a sufficiently close vision to lead a common list”declared the person concerned Thursday evening on the set of “Quotidien”, in response to criticism of the Insoumis on disunity.