Martine Aubry and Manuel Valls allies in the Congress PS – Les Echos

Four competing texts will be submitted to the vote of the militants. The first secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis wants to launch “a new covenant to the left” by 2017.

Unless major accident, it is unlikely that the next Congress PS becomes referendum for or against government policy, as was the wish of the party’s left wing. Four political guidance material (motions) will be voted on by militants late May, just weeks before the scheduled conference from 5 to 7 June in Poitiers. All competitors but not all with the same chances at the starting line.

The first secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, candidate for reappointment, managed to secure the appointment in June by gathering around him all socialist tenors, Prime Minister Manuel Valls to the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. Given the limited electorate (131,000 members to date of contribution and 30,000 others who can regularize their situation), this motion juggernaut is likely to be a majority – all will be to know to what extent – against the three other texts running. There the slingers and left the party, led by the deputy of the Nièvre Christian Paul. Posing as “unaligned” , the member of the Hautes Alpes Karine Berger is also expanding into the battle with the support of the general rapporteur of the Budget Valérie Rabault and Ségolène Royal supporters. A fourth text, “Daring a new citizen and republican pact” , is presented by a national secretary of the PS, Florence Augier.

not a rally, but “new text”

The negotiations were intense in recent weeks for Martine Aubry and initialed at the bottom of the same text as the executive despite his criticism on government policy. The alliance was made official Friday night, two days after the commitment of Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls to create a personal business account. “I’d rather be in for fight inside” said the mayor of Lille, rejecting any idea of ​​ “rallying” – “nobody is going under the bed” . The move was immediately welcomed by the Prime Minister: “When the rally is done for the success of the five year term of Francois Hollande and the action of the government I lead, that’s a good thing” . The head of government can actually show relieved: Congress looks less tormented than expected and the slingers not calling for his head. Pro or anti government referendum, they move the debate on the role of PS in the definition of the policy. Christian Paul and demands “ more influence” to the PS. One way to flatter the party patriotism activists while reassuring: “We are not in crisis fuckers” as the text of the direction was not finalized until later to reconcile. personalities with different options, the slinger member has already warned of the risk of “a catch-all convention, congress or anesthesia quilt.”

The number of the PS Jean-Christophe Cambadélis it was situated in the post-congress proposing the ” overcoming the Socialist Party “ through the foundation of a ” new alliance left “ with environmentalists while opening the associative and unions. And propose a convention on the subject in November 2016. Five months before the next presidential election.

The motion Cambadélis

The first secretary of the PS said Saturday that his motion for Congress PS translated “the revival of socialist” . “It is not a synthesis, a thesis [...], the revival of the socialist government and success by exceeding the Socialist Party” , said the socialist leader to the press.
His motion, entitled “socialist renewal” , advocates an alliance that starts with “the union of the left and environmentalists” “is and remains our strategy,” but must also translate “a popular alliance towards the citizens” and ” unionists, associations, intellectuals, activists , “according to the text. “This is a message towards our compatriots that we are able to come together to put the odds on our side in order to succeed” , commented Claude Bartolone, President of the National Assembly.