PS: 4 motions filed, Aubry joined the majority line – The Point

After the agreement reached Friday between Martine Aubry and Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on a joint text, the National Council of the Socialist Party has yet to endorse this Saturday afternoon at least four competing motions for the party congress in Poitiers, the June 5 to 7

The aim of this conference is hard for the PS, which has just undergone, with departmental a fourth election defeat in a year and intends to prepare for the regional and December 2017 presidential election: the government hopes that this appointment will be more peaceful and that the motion of the first secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, he argues, will get the largest possible majority

. Text First Secretary, presented Saturday at his supporters, will advocate “the revival of socialist success by government” but also “by exceeding the Socialist Party” through the establishment of a “new covenant left” with the left and environmentalists and citizens, he said.

Martine Aubry agrees

Mr. Cambadélis managed Friday to agree with Martine Aubry, who prolongs the suspense for several days, waiting for the government’s pledges on various claims. In the motion of it as “points of agreement” as “occupational social security” that is dear to him, the revival of investment, tax reform, with equalization between poor and rich regions and the “rights employees. ”

Christian Paul, file header of the motion of the left of the PS, and considered close to the mayor of Lille, said that she had chosen to be “effective as it thought it could be. ” The text of which he is the first signatory, refined in the night from Friday to Saturday, calls for “strong inflections to try to save the five-year” with short-term measures for “the most disadvantaged, housing, balance territorial, “a leader. The Cambadélis motion “takes all the proposals Martine Aubry for months,” assured meanwhile on France Inter François Lamy, a relative of the mayor of Lille.

And the right wing of the PS?

The division of the “reformers” (right wing) around the Mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb, will also join this motion. Friday night Collomb had claimed “corrections” believing that Mr. Cambadélis text was “contrary, in some respects, to the government’s policy.”

It evoked a particular ” challenging the CICE and the Pact of responsibility “and deplored any claim to greater” tax reform with fusion of the income tax and the CSG in 2016 “, points effectively addressed in a draft circulated in the night. The final version was not available Saturday. “Since then, the texts have evolved and will allow to go to a rally,” Mr Collomb estimated.

Other motions?

Third Text: Motion “La Fabrique”, signed by the member of the Hautes-Alpes Karine Berger, is that of “non-aligned” and confrontation between refuses ” blocks activist. “

A motion”, “filed by a national secretary, Florence Augier, was also announced

These.” motions “will be presented May 21 to socialist activists – to number of 131,000 plus 30 000 potential not current contribution according to the PS Saturday. On May 28, they will decide between the two motions led the way May 21 and the first signatory of the majority motion will be the first secretary. The Congress will ratify the votes on 5, 6 and 7 June in Poitiers. “This conference must not be a repetition of the debates of the nights of the National Assembly,” warned Stéphane Le Foll, spokesman for the government and close to Francois Hollande, denouncing the “+ chicailleries +” left screws -to-vis certain government initiatives. “The challenge,” he said, is to fight against “the UMP and Nicolas Sarkozy” and “against the National Front.”