These are words that are enough to make you smile.
The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, visiting the Agricultural Show, defended himself this Monday from leading a party focused solely on the cities, believing that the elected representatives of the PS “knew our territories perfectly.
» “The sauciflard, the aperitif, is also our culture,” smiled Olivier Faure on Monday, in front of the French beer brewers' stand, after a meeting with spirits manufacturers.
“I am not going to engage in demagoguery or a form of caricature, but we also defend a way of life.
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For Olivier Faure, the “legend” that the PS was an urban party was “maintained for a long time, because we had parliamentarians who came from large metropolises.
» But “for some time, we have mainly had people who come from the rural or peri-urban world”, “elected officials who know our territories perfectly”, he estimated.
“Communist and therefore a sharer, I do not ask for copyright,” retorted ironically the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel.
Communist and therefore sharer, I do not ask for copyright.
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— Fabien Roussel (@Fabien_Roussel) February 26, 2024
“But who voted for the CAP?
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For the European elections, for which the PS and Raphaël Glucksmann's party, Place Publique, will constitute a joint list, Olivier Faure regrets that the media world "only remembers a match between, on the one hand, Bardella, (head of the RN list) and on the other hand, Macron.
» “But who voted for the CAP?
», the European Common Agricultural Policy, at the heart of the anger of farmers who demand a revision, “Bardella like Attal, and his representatives.
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“We refused to vote for it, because we knew well that it would lead to gigantic distortions in the peasant world, and that it would essentially benefit the very big ones,” believes the first secretary of the PS.
If the latter defends itself from any disconnection between the PS and the rural world, this argument is sometimes taken up, including internally.
In the countryside, the banner of the left “becomes a repellent”, estimates the socialist vice-president of Lot Rémi Branco, in a work published in mid-February.
He describes a political family perceived in the rural world as “lesson givers” or as “an elite which imposes a model of life”, calling on the left to “seek avenues of reconciliation” with rurality, convinced that both have a “common future.”
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