He transformed his Laboratory of Ideas, which Martine Aubry had given him the keys to when she presided over the destinies of the PS ten years ago, into a Festival of Ideas.
Change of times and perspectives.
"This year, I attended each of the summer universities of the three parties, EELV, PS and France rebellious", says Christian Paul, project manager of this event, whose second annual edition took place this weekend. in the Nièvre at La Charité-sur-Loire.
"The result that I draw is that none of these three formations can impose itself as a central force", judges the former Socialist rebellious deputy.
Since the PS had to abdicate a hegemony on the left that it risks never finding, nothing else to do now than to talk to each other.
Many of the people in charge who spent this weekend at La Charité - from Olivier Faure to Alain Bayou, via Adrien Quatennens, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem or Eric Piolle and Yannick Jadot - therefore debated in workshops sweeping all the current topics.
"Do not sink into fatalism"
"The idea is not to be completely disappointed and not to sink into fatalism in two years if Macron returns", recognizes Maxime Ollivier, an associative activist invested in "Common resilience" where young people from all walks of life meet. from the left.
Judging by the differences between some speakers - in particular on the analysis of the economic crisis and its remedies - the objective of the organizers of reaching a "coalition of ideas in order to achieve the coalition of forces" is still far from being achieved. be achieved.
