Socialists gathered in Poitiers until Sunday for their 77 th Congress. Our correspondents on site make you live the second day.
6:15 p.m.. The Socialist Congress finally started
After breakfast Delay forces, debates of this Saturday afternoon shoot length. The aubrystes take the opportunity to defend the tax reform or stopping the decline in allocations to local authorities. You enter the conference. With representatives currents confront their visions of French socialism. Maurel and Collomb, then the Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament, Jean-Marie Le Guen, also among the “reformers”: “Jaurès, he was not rebellious! He was rallying! “, he says, leading the militants of the left wing of telling them” clarification “ and warning them to ” a Socialism confinement “. Which begin to boo him when he explains that the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has difficulty because there is, within Syriza, a left wing … too left.
Other spokesman of the left wing – French – Jérôme Guedj is delighted to get on the podium while the room was heated. He is happy to succeed Le Guen: “Cla-ri-fi-ca-tion” . It takes, too, the word Valls, and wants to be a “socialist demanding” . “The commitments of the Pact of responsibility and CICE are not respected” , he said, recalling that the orientation text which was selected to 60% by socialist militants shows the proposed a “down the CSG on raw slices” . “You wrote it, you have voted, then yes, do it!” Ditto on the opposition to “Labour extension the Sunday”: “You wrote it, you’ve voted, do it!”
Some interventions later, the hilarious Gérard Filoche is there too. It requires a “control” state on layoffs and calls for “unit” of the left with the Greens and the Left Front government. “The program that comes out, it will be at the heart of the left” , he concluded.
It took almost two days to wait to have, in Poitiers, a socialist congress . It is late: Sunday noon, once the speech of the first secretary, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis folded, it will already completed
5:37 p.m… Emmanuel Maurel meets Manuel Valls
In Toulouse, in 2012, he was the number one between the majority of the PS. This year, he left Christian Paul lead the motion, Emmanuel Maurel is always to the podium to put the Government, Manuel Valls at the head, in front of his contradictions. The Prime Minister expressed “attentive to what the Socialists say? Well it is not seen “, Maurel slap. He returns to the previous speeches, including ministers, saying it sees common elements:. “Chiche launches the European néodéputé Actons collectively we have a number of inflections now! “ Aid to businesses? “We must not wait for a hypothetical assessment ‘, he said. The decrease in depreciation and communities? “Since you are all agreed,” , it requests that it be stopped. “Let’s make the Poitiers Congress serve some purpose!” , he said. To stop militant hemorrhage, “The best way, is to give concrete evidence that we have influence on what the government” . It could make the “List of statements that contradict what the majority” . “This dramatic discrepancy between the words and deeds contribute to the crisis of political , insists Maurel. This undermines our credibility.”
Hear speech from the rostrum of the congress then see the majority pass laws that “privatize airports” or “challenge lines” string, ” this is where it will not! , is irritated Maurel. This is where we have a problem between us! “. It sends a pike the most liberal of his party comrades. “! I would have preferred that they be counted before the militants [...] Next time, think” Maurel ensure that its current remains PS to fight from within: “We will not allow the party to Jaurès and Blum social-liberal moved our activists and our voters do not want! This would lead to defeat, and, I dare say, to dishonor “. He concludes with these words “reform” and “progressivism” brandished by Valls few hours earlier: “When I see certain reforms, they are not not progressive and when I see the Macron law is not progressive “
Some interventions later, the Mayor of Lyon, Gérard Collomb, leader of the” Pole of reformers. “- sensitivity which has everything the aspiring PS to an economic policy with “less brakes” – responds to the rostrum. It reiterates the method between Jean Jaures and Jules Guesde and defends the government’s action in view of the first: “Let socialism reform! One that meets the aspirations of the French! “ Strange anachronism.
17:30. Bennahmias wants to gather via the center
In Poitiers, in the midst of members and elected socialists, we crossed Jean-Luc Bennahmias. Sunglasses on the nose, the chairman of the Democratic Front – ex-Green and former Modem – frolicking in the sun, serves pognes and tells stories. It is in Poitiers after receiving an invitation in his mailbox from Solferino. Because, Bennahmias often arises at the Elysee, he gossiped with François Hollande, he slips, he says, “strategy” in 2017. According to him, it is necessary to drop the other left which means “hurt the PS” and gather via the center, that is to say. “But I never know what I think Holland unlike Valls, who I think, agrees with me.” The First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, invited all the forces left to co-host the Summer University of La Rochelle. For the moment, no party except the invitation of the Democratic Front Bennahmias, who will organize two workshops.
16 hours. Hamon critical “ideological turn” Valls
After the morning Christian Paul, Benoît Hamon was the second representative of the left wing waited in the gallery of Poitiers. And the ex-minister has changed a bit the refrain representatives of this board: “The socialist militants who voted [for the motion of Cambadélis, note], they knew the turn, the pursuit of this policy. I hope you are not mistaken, I hope that this approach will lead us in 2017 “. Stealth Education Minister – the government released late August when Arnaud Montebourg got fired – Review “ideological turn” Valls. “Without socialism, the republic is empty” , he launches an echo in the design of the Republic defended by the Prime Minister. “First Republic or the first socialism?” , he asks. “Secularism is not banning headscarves at university” , he warns, and wondered if, with Macron law, “adventure” as that of Fralib Gémenos – who were visited last week Francois Hollande – “will be possible [...] I think not,” THE R.La and ..
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12:14 . Valls “proud” of Holland and the “political left” government
A pat to Medef, big slaps to Nicolas Sarkozy and a package of caresses the Socialists. Mission accomplished. In Poitiers, with a left wing confined to its role as a minority and Martine Aubry who decided to stay good, Prime Minister Manuel Valls had plenty of space to occupy the second day of the 77 th Congress . The beginning of five years of provocations left the locker room, the time has come to ask – new for him – in “convener” socialist
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In his speech, Manuel Valls had to repeat a good twenty times “be proud” to socialist who see their sections empty and voters depart. “Proud” “great president” , “Francis” , it is warmly applaud early intervention. “Proud” “political left” that is conducted including school reform or the “European reorientation” supposedly driven by France. Applause. None “slingshot” against him unlike in August at the summer school of La Rochelle. The Prime Minister played this afternoon on velvet.
He tried to prove to the far left of the party, if “like companies” , it can also raise the tone when some do not play the game on the “commitments” they made in signing the Covenant of responsibility. He also knows denounce the “permanent complaints [...] representatives of employers’ which he expected ” something else “. What? “A pride, a sense of responsibility, patriotism at the effort made by the nation” . And the Prime Minister to ensure that these “commitments” will soon not kept “assessed” . “Everyone will assume its responsibilities and the government will take his” , he said, angry.
It confirms that the site of the withholding tax will soon be engaged, as “new measures” to “accompany job creation in small and micro businesses” and “remove the obstacles to hiring” will be announced Tuesday, before stressing his Republican triptych “authority” – “secularism” – “equality” . His left, it is “reformist” “I hear what is being said on other lefts that arise” , he says in response to Christian Paul. For Valls, the family that owns the PS, it is neither Syriza nor Podemos, but “social democrats”
Valls then card Nicolas Sarkozy.: “By its practices in opposition, Nicolas Sarkozy is already a problem for the country” . A week after the congress of ex-UMP, Valls accused the former President to continue to “open the door” the National Front and invited to “meditate on the past “ ” Making politics is to serve others, not settle personal scores! Doing politics – and even more when we were president – it’s pulling up his country, raise the debate, not dive in with both feet and excessive aggressiveness “ . And the head of government to laugh the room when it comes out of its text and goes further on the “revenge” of the former Head of State: “About us: c ‘is normal. On his friends: it’s understandable. On him, it’s painful … but the French, we do not accept “
And to those of his party who accuse, surveys in hand, to wish double. Holland to the 2017 approach, Valls promises before his comrades in Poitiers there will “no personal adventure.” “Only collective achievements , he insists. You can be sure of my unswerving loyalty to the President of the Republic “. Wanting to “guarantor” the rally despite its socialist positions that have, in the past, divided his camp, he said he wanted to “succeed”. “I respect and love the PS socialists. I know what I owe you “, launches Valls before responding to the hollow of a Libération this weekend: ” No political parties and in any case the PS is not dead! “ THE and R.La.
11:40. “When the left comes together on a left program, it beats the right”
The motion of the top of the list B (“Left to Win”), Christian Paul, saw many things. The MP for Nièvre went back in time to describe his campaign for the post of first secretary. The first step to the right and the extreme. Paul saw “how Sarkozy years had distilled over individualism, division and hatred” and “the progress of national populism in looks, heads and urns” . The “rebellious” also saw “socialists who are about to start” .
After the past, the future. “ From Poitiers, I asked a simple question: If I was 18 years old, what to choose between two days and two days conference in Madrid or Barcelona, to understand what it going on? “ The answer is in the question. Christian Paul speaks of “left next” , observes the evolution of Podemos in Spain with his head full of dreams because “when the left collects on a left program, it beats right “.
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In conclusion, it ranks the weapons: unity PS is not in danger. But he asks his comrades of the majority to be careful: “There are two directions in the left of Government [...] they live in our party, they struggle in Poitiers.” “The social-liberal policy, it forgets the social” , said the MP, who warns that “these economic debates [...] is not completed” . The Macron law is back to the Assembly, he launched a Manuel Valls – out, Congress random cell that time – “Shake again on Article 49.3 Macron law, ie, is the negation of all the declarations of the Congress “. Late Sunday morning, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis should read “address the people of France” . An address that Paul and his motion surely not sign. The unit is fragile. R.La.
11:20. “The gap is widening between the people and our party ‘
This is the first leading figure to mount the rostrum of Poitiers. The President of the National Assembly, Claude Bartolone attack first sentence … and we cut him the microphone. Manuel Valls has just entered the exhibition of Poitiers. “What fun!” , is he fun. Valls moved. Bartolone resumes. He wants Poitiers used to say that the Socialists “want to make this the second time the five-year” . He recalled that he had brought the debate over 3%, the “design” of Europe and the “confrontation” with Germany. And his socialist comrades who speak of “competitiveness” or “charges” , he launched: “Let attention to the words we use” . “Without our action is the invisible hand of the market , insists the boss of the Assembly. We have another direction to offer them “.
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Before him, Marie -Noëlle Lienemann had pointed to the platform with a little yellow sweater and strong words. The previous socialist leaders told a dream world. The senator took another path: “We can not do it as the crisis was behind us, as it falling membership did not exist. The growing gap between the people and our party “ Then she adds. ” Let’s look at rising unemployment declining purchasing power, electoral defeats and the rise of the National Front. The malaise is deep, it can not lead a liberal policy and say that it is a social-liberal policy. Where will our party there is more to the left? “ At the end of her speech she is reaping the first applause of the conference in the morning.
Shaking his, the MP Karine Berger, leader of the motion “The Socialist Factory” in this congress (9.5%) also gets stuck: “We must remember that in socialism there is social” . She requested that the PS carries the idea of a “public service retirement homes” , write a “new Maastricht Treaty” and fighting for the anonymous CV … that the government has just buried. “Being responsible when one is socialist is to defend [...] our ideals she continues. The PS can take risks that a government does not. “ THE and R.La.
10:15. Martine Aubry first arrival, not to mention
The socialist delegates had not yet taken place in the exhibition center of Poitiers she tumbled, big smile, towards the table his “Fed”, the North, his opponents want to sting him. One in particular: the Minister of Youth and the City, Patrick Kanner, his former deputy mayor of Lille. But when Martine Aubry arrives at his table of “59″, hop, a little kiss Kanner we imagine, of course, true … After the scuffle between marshals and photographers wanting to – simply – a snapshot of the former boss of the PS, Aubry has settled amidst a bevy of Northern leaders, turning to make new smiles to photographers. To his left, but his faithful Kanner: Stone Saintignon, leader of the Socialists in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy region, yet first North Federal, Gilles Pargneaux, and newcomer in Lille, the former Minister of the City, François Lamy. In this small socialist theater, all is well in the North. This is wants us to believe …
Aubry will not take the floor today. It will leave his family – Pierre-Alain Mute, Mathieu Klein, Jean-Marc Germain, Pierre Cohen … – defending in the gallery of Poitiers the content of the motion they signed with the first secretary, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis and everything Government: stop allocations to local authorities cuts, tax reform, social security professional … “We feel guarantors of the application of this text,” , insists Germain, which confirms that the mayor of Lille account organize his “sensitivity” . She has already met on Friday night in Poitiers. L.A.
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