The convention of the PS failed, three candidates are declared officially
Monday, November 24, 2008 – 9:21 pmMartine Aubry, Benoît Hamon and Segolene Royal are officially candidates in the station of First secretary of the socialist party whereas Bertrand Delanoe throws the sponge. Earlier in the night, no agreement has been found on an orientation common, nor no consensus on a new leader. Segolene Royal even slapped the door. The Convention ends therefore on a failure. Next appointment: Thursday for the vote of the militants. On the right, some speak of a possible disappearance of the PS.
Gone Socialist
There are three candidacies: Martine Aubry, Benoît Hamon and Segolene Royal", indicated this Sunday morning Frederique Espagnac, l’ journalist of the First secretary of the socialist party (PS) retiring, François Hollande. Three candidacies recorded by the office of the Convention PS of Reims to the hour-limit of the deposit. The negotiations supposed to name a leader was a failure. The socialist Party is "seriously sick" concluded the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe summarizing the feeling thus by far, at the end of three days of tearings. "We won’t add the division to the division (…) One takes act with a certain sadness", He has said. He led one of the main motions to the convention, but decided not to carry themselves candidate in the station of First secretary and not to give order of vote.
With nearly 33.000 voices, They motion TO arrives in second position with 25,24% of the voices after the one of Segolene Royal, the E that got 5.000 supplementary voices and fall by 29,08% of militants. With 24,32% and 31.734, Martine Aubry and They D motion positions itself thus on the third walk, consistent of Benoît Hamon (18,52%).
Summarizing the movie of the weekend, Stephane the Foll, right arm of François Hollande affirmed "us made the choice of the responsibility. We looked for the solutions. There was not some (…) It was not negotiable." This 75th Convention of the Socialist Party ends therefore without no orientation common, nor no agreement on a new leader came out again.
Segolene Royal didn’t succeed in uniting a majority of the party around the orientations that she proposed for "the renovation" of the PS. It doesn’t constitute a surprise indeed because of the hostility that sHe causes within the PS. Since the opening of the Convention, the principal dawns blockage crystallized around the alliances between socialist and center of the modem that Segolene Royal judges desirable from 2012 to oust Nicolas Sarkozy. An option that the set of the other currents refuses. To raise what sHe considers like "a pretext" aiming to make him obstacle, the chairwoman of the Poitou-Charentes had proposed Saturday before the convention a "direct consultation of the militants" on this question. Later in the night, the ex-candidate to the presidential even left the commission of the resolutions, the restricted process that traditionally prepares the syntheses of convention, at the end of three hours in a meeting qualified on both sides of "semblance of dialogue." "The militants are going to have the floor now, since next Thursday (at the time of the vote to elect the first secretary, ndlr), sHe has declared before the press. The hand aimed to the other partners has not been seized."
They departure has been followed of a meeting to three, that didn’t know more of success, between the leaders of the three other big motions, Bertrand Delanoe, Martine Aubry and Benoît Hamon. If an agreement appeared possible on a common text, it was not able to make themselves on an unique candidate.
Harlem Desire, lieutenant of M. Delanoe, raised that the PS was "in an unpublished situation": "us (the PS) don’t have a majority", "a first secretary is going to be elected without being sustained by a majority, in the immediate", he has said. "We come out of the convention as one went back" there, declared for They part Michel Sapin, close to Bertrand Delanoe. Jean-Marc Ayrault, leader of deputies PS, recognized "a general failure."
François Hollande, the first retiring secretary esteem on They side that "no one won but many have been lost in the research of a majority." He wanted to be however reassuring. While designating to the universal suffrage a candidate, "this majority of militants will necessarily lead a majority in the PS, declared have-til. And Thursday indeed at the time of the final vote, the militants should have the last word and name their leader.
On the right and more especially within the UMP, no one is inconvenienced to laugh at this convention. Would it be the Convention of the disappearance?even wondered secretary of the Interior Michele Alliot-Marie on Radio J. Roger Karoutchi, loaded of the relations with the Parliament, compared this socialist Convention to a "very mediocre remake" of "Regulation of accounts to OK Corral" and "The uncles flingueurs." That that, according to him, "should have finished to despair the socialist adherents that there believed again." "As all French I don’t understand of it anything", commented Patrick Devedjian, number one of the UMP at the time of "Sunday political evening" (I-Television, France Inter, Le Monde). The "big teaching" of these two days, it is "the confirmation that this party doesn’t have a project for France", and "is incapable to feed another debate that the one of They possible alliances", according to Dominique Paille, spokesman of the UMP. "The PS admits more power henceforth to be the motor truth of the opposition", he adds.