Two years ago, on the weekend of April 7 and 8, 2018, MP Olivier Faure was officially invested at the head of his party during the Aubervilliers congress. The socialists were emerging from a series of failures that could mark the end of the party's history, both in the presidential and the legislative elections. A fiasco anchored on the failure of the socialist quinquennium of François Hollande.
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Since then, the party has been maintained, no matter what, without splinters but without sinking further even if many, starting with the first secretary, hoped that the Europeans would give them back their oxygen. But it was the environmentalists who took the left hand on this occasion.
The municipal campaign and then the ballot, even if there was only one round with a low turnout, nevertheless showed that the local socialist anchoring remains a reality on the ground, solid. " We are the party that has made the most progress in the number of town halls actually controlled, department by department ",
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