This controversial choice was partially validated.
The National Council of the Socialist Party validated, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, its list for the European elections, and noted the fact that it will be led by MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, but the composition of the team arouses criticism in internal.
Socialist activists will decide on February 8 on this list and who will lead it.
Their vote will then be ratified on February 10 during a Europe convention.
It will only be at this time that Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the Place publique movement, will be officially invested by the PS.
“We approved our list and the fact that it will be led by Raphaël Glucksmann with almost 60%,” indicated Sébastien Vincini, president of the Haute-Garonne departmental council, who chaired the electoral commission.
The PS is currently credited in the polls with 8 to 10% of voting intentions, or around 10 candidates in an eligible position.
Of these first ten candidates, Place publique, which must soon finalize an agreement with the PS, hopes for at least three places, the PS wishing instead to reserve two for it: that of Raphaël Glucksmann and that of the outgoing MEP Aurore Lalucq, who could find yourself in 4th position.
Disappointment of the minority current
The National Council, which brings together nearly 300 executives, adopted the list by 176 votes for, 108 votes against and 10 abstentions.
Behind the head of the list, arrive in particular the current socialist MEP Nora Mebarek, then the secretary general of the PS Pierre Jouvet, mayor of Saint-Vallier (Drôme).
Followed by outgoing MEP Christophe Clergeau, the mayor of Feyzin (Rhône) Murielle Laurent, the former MP and husband of the mayor of Paris Jean-Marc Germain, the president of the Young Socialists Emma Rafowicz, the regional councilor of Landes Éric Sargiacomo , and PS spokesperson Chloé Ridel.
A list which carries both “the social-democratic heritage of European construction”, and “new faces” markers “of feminist and environmental struggles”, greeted Vincini.
Members of the minority current of the PS, Refondations, close to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga, voted against, dissatisfied with the position of their candidates.
In an open letter to Olivier Faure, Carole Delga regretted "the lack of territorial openness" of the list, denouncing "the game of internal arrangements" which "erased the imperative political necessity to make the voice of those who are not heard or who can no longer make themselves heard.”
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She called for a review of the team's composition.
“If our party does not emit a strong political signal and in particular that of making visible all the invisibles of our country, then what is the point?
“, she commented.
The deputy Philippe Brun, who was responsible for a mission “so that the Socialist Party regains the confidence of the working classes and the middle classes”, decided to resign from his functions, deploring that “the first worker” on the list or “in 41st position, far from the eligible zone”.
On this list, “the PS is brought together in its diversity,” assured Sébastien Vincini.
“We must not fall into the easy way of pitting urban France against rural France,” added Pierre Jouvet, “rural elected official and proud of it.”
Voices had already been raised in recent days to deplore the lack of diversity of the team, considered too Parisian and elitist.