The Socialist Party claims to embody the alternative to Macronism

Gathered in Blois for their summer university, where they demonstrated unity, the Socialists presented their budgetary guidelines. They are demanding to govern as soon as François Bayrou is overthrown on September 8.
Blois (Loir-et-Cher), special correspondent.
By spending all their late summers in the Loir-et-Cher prefecture since 2020, the Socialists have ended up developing the language of Blois there. Here they call for "responsibility," there they promise "compromises." While François Bayrou and his ministers will fall on September 8 after a vote of confidence in the National Assembly, and since the Socialist Party is a "party of government," it must govern, they repeat. "We are ready," claims First Secretary Olivier Faure, in the name of the left. "We are ready to get to work to straighten out our country, with justice, with all those who want it, based on our project and our method." "If we are the ones who allow the truck to move forward, we might as well give us the wheel," smiles Boris Vallaud, president of the group in the Assembly. And, for once, the roses have put away their thorns to grow in the same direction...
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