Disagreeing with the composition of the socialist list in the European elections, which he considers lacking candidates from the working classes, the deputy for Eure Philippe Brun announced Thursday, February 1, that he was leaving the leadership of the party, deploring
"a spirit of closing"
.
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While the socialist list was adopted during the night from Wednesday to Thursday by the national council of the PS, the 32-year-old deputy notes that
"the first worker"
is
"in 41st position, far from the eligible zone"
, explains he said in a statement to AFP.
“I was not heard”
Mr. Brun was charged a year ago by the first secretary Olivier Faure to undertake
“fundamental work so that the Socialist Party regains the confidence of the working classes and the middle classes”
.
This work, within a convention entitled
“Let’s find the people”
, was to be completed in the coming months.
Among the objectives was that
of “better representation of the working classes in the candidacies of our party, which has many worker activists and employees at its base but very few at its head
,” he recalls.
“I weighed in with all my weight and put all my strength into it”
so that candidates from the working classes
“could appear on our European list”
, but
“I see that I have not been heard”
.
Deploring a
“spirit of closure”
, he underlines:
“The Socialist Party will not find the people without the people”
.
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“After having toured France to explain that the PS had changed and was going to make room for all those who only have their work to live, I cannot continue this mission which turns out to be a masquerade
,” adds he said, announcing that he was leaving his position within the leadership of the PS.
However, he remains within the party, and within Olivier Faure's majority current.
Mr. Brun is the only left-wing deputy from Eure, a department having voted 55% for Marine Le Pen, and founder of the School of Engagement, a political training school intended for the working classes.
Several voices have been raised in recent days within the PS to deplore a lack of diversity in the composition of the socialist list, which will be led by the leader of the small Place publique group, Raphaël Glucksmann.