The Socialist Party will finally debate the future of its participation in Nupes during a national council on Tuesday

The Socialist Party will convene its national council on Tuesday evening, October 17, to discuss a possible exit from the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) due to the positions of La France insoumise (LFI) on Hamas, he said. we learned on Sunday October 15 from the party.

This national council could mark the end of the left alliance, if the PS decided to leave this coalition created in May 2022 between La France insoumise, the PS, the Communist Party and the environmentalists, as several socialists are demanding. It will bring together around 300 party officials and will be held from 7:30 p.m.

It was to take place on Saturday, but first secretary Olivier Faure finally decided to postpone it, “given the dramatic context linked to the assassination” of a teacher by a radicalized Islamist former student on Friday in Arras.

The National Council promises to be tense: since the refusal of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and certain LFI officials to qualify the Palestinian Hamas movement as “terrorist” after its unprecedented attack against Israel, all internal opponents of Olivier Faure, hostile to the Nupes, spoke out to demand the exit of the PS from this coalition, largely dominated by LFI.

“Moral bankruptcy”

This is particularly the case of the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, who speaks of “moral bankruptcy”, of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who evokes “a mésalliance”, or even of the mayor of Rouen and internal rival of ‘Olivier Faure, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who makes it “a question of principle”.

But Olivier Faure, fervent defender of left-wing union, does not intend to leave Nupes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

After having judged in Libération that the position of LFI on the war between Israel and Hamas would have “serious consequences” on the future of the alliance, he hopes that the Nupes can be rebalanced, denouncing “the Mélenchon method”, which “never seeks the center of gravity of the gathering of the left” but aims at the radicalization of positions. “The Nupes as we have known it until today, we think this is the end,” said those around him.

The pressure is also increasing since the PCF also seemed to take a step towards leaving the coalition, after having voted on Sunday, during its own national council, a resolution stating that the Nupes had become “a dead end” and calling to “a new type of union” of the left.