That was a few weeks ago, almost an eternity in leftist political time. Asked about the congress of the Socialist Party (PS), Manuel Bompard, deputy La France insoumise (LFI) of Bouches-du-Rhône, posed the equation as follows: “A pro-Nupes line [Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale] on one side, an anti-Nupes line on the other. If Olivier Faure wins, Nupes continues. If he loses, she falls. »
At a time when the outgoing first secretary seems to be embroiled in endless disputes, after the tight score obtained against his rival, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, is Nupes threatened with collapse? Mr. Bompard assures us not. “The pro-Nupes line won! », he believes. Before the socialist congress which begins this Friday, January 27, many “rebellious” and environmentalists have taken the side of Mr. Faure. And to find oneself a little perplexed by the breakthrough of Mr. Mayer-Rossignol, whose position on the left alliance is not clear.
Contrary to the supporters of Hélène Geoffroy and despite his rapprochement of circumstances with the latter, he never defended a pure and simple exit from the coalition. For the Green deputy Sandra Regol, one thing is certain, if the deputy of Seine-et-Marne loses his congress, the Nupes will be “amputated”. “We have a collective interest in ensuring that the Nupes comes out stronger”she believes.
“A prohibitive side”
For the remainder, it is especially the pitiful side of the spectacle given by the PS which strikes the remainder of a left which did not need new public annoyances to start its credibility. “It will stay, the spectacle of violence, the screams, it has a prohibitive, indecent side in the current period, the issue is not the quarrel of ego, but the reform of pensions”further believes Mme Reg. This sequence, the elected Bas-Rhin recognizes, has nothing to envy to the darkest hours of certain congresses of the Greens.
The episode also stands out, for observers within the left-wing coalition, as proof of the collapse of the PS, yet another episode in its downfall. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it is clear that, everywhere or almost everywhere in Europe, when the parties of the radical left take precedence over the old social democracy, ” never [ces derniers] are not reborn afterwards, for the simple reason that their software is dead”.
Why then worry about a party that is already defunct? This is almost what Green MEP David Cormand says: “The PS congress has already been won in the first round of the presidential election by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The challenge was either we accept with more or less enthusiasm a situation where the PS cannot claim leadership on the left, or we leave the alliance, which is the line of the Dutch. » The setbacks of the PS could be read as a sign of the decay of the form of an old-fashioned party, shrunk to a handful of militants. The “rebellious”, themselves very busy questioning executives and activists on the internal democracy within their movement, see for some in the crisis of the socialists the proof that the congresses can sometimes not settle anything at all.
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