The nearly 300 executives of the national council of the Socialist Party (PS) agreed, on the night of Wednesday January 31 to Thursday February 1, on the list for the European elections and noted the fact that it will be led by the MEP Raphaël Glucksmann.
Socialist activists must now decide on February 8 on this list and who will lead it. Their vote will then be ratified on February 10 during a Europe convention. It will only be at this time that Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the Place publique movement, will be officially invested by the PS.
“We approved our list and the fact that it will be led by Raphaël Glucksmann at almost 60%,” Sébastien Vincini, president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne, who hosted the event, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). the electoral commission. The list was adopted by 176 votes in favor, 108 votes against and 10 abstentions.
The PS is currently credited in the polls with 8 to 10% of voting intentions, or around ten candidates in an eligible position. Of these first ten candidates, Place publique, which must soon finalize an agreement with the PS, is hoping for at least three places, with the PS instead wishing to reserve two for it: that of Raphaël Glucksmann and that of outgoing MEP Aurore Lalucq, who could find yourself in 4th position.
Behind the head of the list, arrive the current MEP Nora Mebarek, then the secretary general of the PS Pierre Jouvet, mayor of Saint-Vallier (Drôme). Followed by the outgoing MEP Christophe Clergeau, the mayor of Feyzin (Rhône), Murielle Laurent, the former MP and husband of the mayor of Paris, Jean-Marc Germain, the president of the Young Socialists, Emma Rafowicz, the regional advisor of Landes Eric Sargiacomo and the spokesperson for the PS, Chloé Ridel. This list bears both “the social democratic heritage of European construction” and “new faces” markers “of feminist and environmental struggles”, welcomed Mr. Vincini.
Criticisms against the composition of the list
Members of the minority current of the PS Refondations, close to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, voted against, dissatisfied with the position of their candidates.
In an open letter to Olivier Faure, Carole Delga regretted “the lack of territorial openness” of the list, denouncing “the game of internal arrangements” which “erased the imperative political necessity to make the voice of those who are not heard or who can no longer be heard.” She called for a review of the composition of the team. “If our party does not emit a strong political signal and in particular that of making visible all the invisibles of our country, then what is the point? “, she commented.
In a statement to AFP, MP Philippe Brun, who was responsible for a mission “so that the PS regains the confidence of the working classes and the middle classes”, decided to resign from his functions, deploring that “the first worker” on the list is “in 41st position, far from the eligible area.”
On this list, “the PS is brought together in its diversity,” assured Mr. Vincini. “We must not fall into the easy way of pitting urban France against rural France,” added Mr. Jouvet, “elected rural and proud of it.”
