September 10 Movement: Olivier Faure believes that the Socialist Party "will have to support it" to "offer it a political outlet"

The September 10 blockade movement "could be massive" and "we must support it" to "offer it a political outlet," said the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, this Thursday, joining the other left-wing parties in supporting this mobilization.

"On September 10, there will be a strong mobilization that everyone can see could match the exasperation and rejection of the current government. It could be massive. We don't fully understand its contours. Its demands are vague, but we must support it," declared Olivier Faure during a speech at the Ecologists' Summer Days in Strasbourg.

The socialists therefore find themselves aligned with the ecologists, the communists and the rebels , who were the first to call for "putting themselves at the service of the local collectives" of the September 10 movement, born on social networks.

With one nuance, however: while the Socialist Party supports the mobilization, "our vocation is not to channel it, tame it, exploit it, or subjugate it, but to offer it a political outlet that is not that of the extreme right," added its first secretary. And while LFI intends to use the movement as a lever to precipitate the censure of François Bayrou's government , Olivier Faure instead wants to obstruct the budget project presented last month by the Prime Minister.

"Nothing has been passed and nothing will be acceptable from this project which saves 44 billion euros on the sick, the unemployed, workers, retirees, on all those who only have us to defend them," hammered the leader of the Socialist Party.

"We will be there on September 10 and the following days to say that we do not want these savings to be taken from their pockets again," he insisted.