The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure warned Thursday the “
masochist left
” against the risk of a new Macron-Le Pen duel in 2022 if it does not manage to unite to “
produce a collective offer
”.
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"
I wish my country to have an alternation tomorrow, to end this duel, this imposed duo Macron-Le Pen
", explained the deputy for Seine-et-Marne.
According to him, the absence of credible alternation is caused "
by the division of the left, by its inability today to produce a collective offer
".
We are “still in Macron, it's horrible !, Marine Le Pen, it's awful!
but in reality, everyone is doing everything to ensure that it is Macron and Le Pen ", he lamented."
There is a masochist left in France which permanently prefers to be indignant but which is not capable of get together to just get down to business and I want to get down to business
, ”insisted the PS boss.
Asked about his own candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, Olivier Faure replied: "
I think we must take the best or the best, if I am the best, I will not shy away
."
But he added "
today, I am sufficiently lucid and it is good that there are people in political life who are so lucid
" to know that "
when you are not in the best position, the better. what we have to do is to line up behind whoever can do it for you and who can make our ideas triumph
”.
Olivier Faure recalled that from next February 4, the PS will "
deliver, month after month, bits of the Socialists' project for the presidential election
", starting with employment and purchasing power, and these proposals will be submitted for discussion on an online platform to “
engage in dialogue with the French
” and with intermediary bodies.