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"There is a way to find each other at the end": between Olivier Faure and Raphaël Glucksmann, the thread is not broken

"There is a way to find each other at the end": between Olivier Faure and Raphaël Glucksmann, the thread is not broken

Officially re-elected this Saturday as party leader, the Socialist Party's First Secretary is calling for a common platform in the run-up to the presidential election. But he still needs to convince the MEP, who is forging his own path.

By Pierre Maurer and Julien Duffé
Olivier Faure, seen here on June 13, was re-elected as leader of the Socialist Party (PS) with 51.15% of the vote, according to official results ratified at the Nancy congress. AFP/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen

At the 81st Congress of the Socialist Party, which ends this Sunday, June 15, his name is on everyone's lips and in many texts, but he is not there. Raphaël Glucksmann , fellow traveler and figurehead of the party with the rose in the European elections, did not travel to Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), where the re-election of its First Secretary, Olivier Faure , was officially consecrated this Saturday. Please do not see this as an act of defiance: the MEP and co-president of the Place publique party was detained by a wedding.

It is no secret that Glucksmann was more in line with the line of challenger Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol , who defended the creation of a "great Socialist Party" with a social-democratic tendency, than with that of Faure, who supported a common candidacy of the broad left, with the exception of La France Insoumise, in 2027. But the mayor of Rouen was narrowly beaten (51.15% against 48.85% according to the official results ratified in Nancy).

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