Olivier Faure will organize next Monday evening his own commemoration of May 10, 1981, 40 years after François Mitterrand's victory in the presidential election.
The first secretary of the PS has in fact given up going the day before, Sunday, May 9, to Le Creusot, in Saône-et-Loire, where the National Foundation of elected Socialist and Republican officials, the Fneser, is organizing for its part - and for a long time date - a day dedicated to the legacy of the former socialist head of state.
Officially, Olivier Faure has chosen to participate in a March for the Climate in Paris.
In fact, he wanted to be able to speak at Le Creusot.
But only François Hollande was invited by the organizers to deliver a speech, announced as very political.
Faure prefers the March for the Climate
In addition to this intervention by the former Head of State, several round tables are planned for this “official” commemoration, with or in the presence of personalities such as former ministers Bernard Cazeneuve, Jean Glavany, Lionel Jospin, Pierre Joxe, François Rebsamen, Jean-Pierre Sueur but also the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, potential socialist candidate in 2022 or even Anne Lauvergeon, Béatrice Marre, Gilbert Mitterrand ...
“
François Mitterrand spent his time uniting the left and in his second term, uniting France.
It is always preferable that we are united around our heritage
”, regretted to Le
Figaro
the PS senator from Loiret, Jean-Pierre Sueur.
Olivier Faure's choice of the March for the Climate is symbolic of the transformation he is carrying out within his party in favor of the environment and openness to environmentalists, with whom he hopes to build an alliance in 2022.
Rwanda, a sensitive subject within the PS
According to our information, however, another subject has come to complicate the matter. The "heirs" of François Mitterrand did not wish, in fact, to open their arms to Olivier Faure because of his positions on Rwanda. They blame the current first secretary of the PS for not supporting the action of France at the time, precisely that of François Mitterrand. Even to support the critics, including those of the MEP Raphaël Glucksmann. A sensitive subject at the time of the opening of the archives on the potential role of France in the genocide.
Monday evening at the headquarters of the PS, in Ivry-sur-Seine, many figures will also come to participate in an evening devoted "
not so much to François Mitterrand himself, we
explain to the PS
, as in the way with which we could one day arouse again, this hope felt on May 10, 81 place de la Bastille and everywhere in France.
The director Serge Moati, who was very close to François Mitterrand, will host the evening in the company, among others, of the young environmental activist Camille Étienne.
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