“We see it very badly, of course”, loose Ali Laazaoui, secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) of Tourcoing (North). He voted for Olivier Faure, like 55.47% of northern socialists, and does not understand the trial of his candidate for having chosen the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes). “It’s pragmatism, a simple political agreement, not a merger”, he justifies about this alliance of the left. Mr. Laazaoui is rather on the left of the party, he who has still not digested the 2016 labor law, under the mandate of the socialist François Hollande: “I fell out of my chair. »
Louisette Rousseau, activist since 2000, and sympathizer for even longer, admits that she “Hold on, but it’s hard”. This retiree from Wattrelos, where the PS section has shrunk to a trickle, insists that she “wants change” and that she “sick of elephants”. Several times she repeats: “We need a strong left! » And, a strong left, a PS which finds a voice, it cannot be the one which “is torn apart in front of the whole of France, where both accuse each other of embezzlement and give the impression that what matters is the position of leader, nothing else”, groan François (the people whose first name only appears requested anonymity), another activist, teacher in a priority education zone. He did not go to vote: “It’s over for me, they’ve all despaired me for a long time. » In the presidential election, he chose Jean-Luc Mélenchon and he still hesitates to join La France insoumise (LFI).
Rémi Boussemart, the leader of the Young Socialists in the North, where, he says, the Faure line dominates, blames the other side: “The Mayer-Rossignol team wanted to immediately discredit the ballot, because they knew they were going to lose. » The young man says to himself ” angry “. “When you want to be responsible for a party, you have to have foresight and act responsibly”he says. The same anger that we find in Véronique, a socialist from Lille, who specifies that she is “of left-wing sensibility and Refoundations”, from the name of the orientation text of the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas-Mayer Rossignol. She is angry with Olivier Faure for having “Managed the party despite all that is our history: respect for minorities. Faure mistreated his opposition”. “50/50 is the worst case scenario. There will always be two parties that will continue to clash,” predicts the activist.
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