The Socialist Party is torn apart over its relationship with La France Insoumise

Bis repetita. Three years after the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes), one year after the New Popular Front, the socialists' relationship with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise (LFI) poisoned the 81st Socialist Party congress, held from June 13 to 15 in Nancy, for three days. To the great delight of the three-time presidential candidate, who became the unexpected star of this socialist "Easter. " "Couldn't you argue about something other than LFI or me?" the three-time presidential candidate on X mockingly asked them.

In his speech on Sunday, Olivier Faure, recently re-elected as head of the party with the rose , warned his comrades, who wanted to make this congress "a referendum for or against LFI" . "As long as their sole obsession is LFI, they will only be demonstrating the psychological domination that the radical left exercises over them," he continued in front of the activists.

Will the Socialist Party (PS) ally itself with Jean-Luc Mélenchon's movement? The question seemed existential to some, trivial to others, just months before the municipal, presidential, and perhaps even early legislative elections, in the event of a dissolution.

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