They were less than a dozen around the table this Wednesday evening at the questure of the Senate.
At the invitation of Anne Hidalgo, with Senator Patrick Kanner as organizer, Martine Aubry, François Hollande, the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga or the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, all met at a confidential dinner in order to to decide on the main lines to launch at the PS and in a broader movement in the post-presidential period.
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Olivier Faure neither warned nor invited
This dinner, whose
Le Monde
revealed the project at the end of the day, was organized without the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, notoriously cold, even icy, with the socialist presidential candidate but also with the former leader of State.
He was neither invited nor warned.
"
It's a meeting of elders who smell of mothballs
," reacted one of the relatives of the Socialist deputy of Seine-et-Marne, alerted at the end of the day of the initiative.
“
François Hollande will now support Carole Delga as he supported Anne Hidalgo, by betraying her from behind
, still creaks this close.
She should be careful not to fall back into the five-year term that has burned us all
.
Bernard Cazeneuve did not wish to come
Bernard Cazeneuve was however invited, but he declined.
According to information from
Le Figaro
, the former prime minister - who does not wish to speak - did not want to participate in this political "
dishwasher
", the word being from a socialist parliamentarian close to him.
Another parliamentarian, and president of the PS group in the Senate, Valérie Rabault, welcomed this absence.
“
Thank you to Bernard Cazeneuve whose wisdom and restraint are precious
”, she reacted on Twitter.
The situation at the PS looks confused after the first round as the Socialists prepare to experience the most bitter failure in their history... Olivier Faure knows that Anne Hidalgo will make him bear all or part of the responsibility for this failure.
He doesn't seem more worried than that.
According to a PS official in whom he recently confided, the first secretary does not imagine that anyone in the PS today wants to work with members of Anne Hidalgo's campaign team or with the former leader of the State, François Hollande.
He says he is convinced of easily winning the new PS congress which will be organized in the next six months.
