This is likely to pitch to the PS, this Tuesday, March 23 in the evening.
According to our information, some members of the National Bureau, the governing body of the Socialist Party, are preparing to question Olivier Faure, its First Secretary, on his silence after the controversy around the UNEF and its "racialized single-sex meetings" .
"I intend to discuss the subject and ask that the PS officially condemn racialized meetings and express a strong line on secularism," says Senator Rachid Temal, who was one of the first elected from the left to himself. protest against the methods of the student union, traditionally close to the PS.
The tweet of the senator from Val-d'Oise - "Fetishizing the race, like the president of the UNEF, is racism!"
Disgusting.
To fight.
"- has been seen 450,000 times," proof ", for Rachid Temal," that the debate is important and that Olivier Faure cannot avoid it ".
The silence of the leader of the Socialists - contacted several times, Olivier Faure did not answer us - astonishes beyond the National Office.
"I understand all the less the silence of Olivier Faure as the PS and Olivier Faure himself are now clear with secularism", underlines Philippe Doucet, member of the National Council - the "parliament" of the party - and co- moderator with Hélène Geoffroy of a motion concurrent with that of Olivier Faure for the next congress.
Do not "obstruct the chances of union"
"All Socialists, of course, are aware of the existence of discrimination and want to fight it," continues Philippe Doucet, former member of the Val-d'Oise and former mayor of Argenteuil.
But the Paty affair and the experiences that local socialist elected officials had to face in cities like Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) or Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), opened eyes to many of us.
The distance from French political life of Manuel Valls, too divisive on these subjects, has also changed the lines within the party.
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So, how to explain the behavior of Olivier Faure while tenors, like Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, his predecessor at the head of the party, or Anne Hidalgo, immediately rejected the principle of racialized meetings of the UNEF?
“The problem that Olivier Faure faces is the relationship of the PS with the rest of the left, analyzes Philippe Doucet.
On the eve of major maneuvers for the regions, it does not want to compromise the chances of union, which constitute one of the major axes of its strategy.
However, the Greens and the rebels have shown that they are defending the UNEF and have moved away from a secular line.
Hence his embarrassment.
And Anne Hidalgo?
"She has her convictions and then she needs, in her march towards the Elysee Palace, to differentiate herself from the Greens", slips an elected ecologist.
Will the ambiguities be resolved?
Verdict this Tuesday evening.
