PS: by criticizing the “old” elephants of the party, a member arouses the ire of certain socialists

As the right had its “barons”, the socialist party had its “elephants”. This term, used interchangeably with that of “caciques” to designate the known and influential executives of the rose party, did not refer to their age, in principle, rather to their positions within the apparatus. For more than a year, the boss of the PS Olivier Faure, tries to push the apparatchiks to the exit, slowly. The President of the Young Socialists Emma Rafowiczwent a little harder this weekend, thrashing the “old” party elephants “responsible for our downfall”.

At a meeting of Nupes youth organizations on Sunday in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) to put pressure on party leaders with a view to a union in the European elections of 2024, Emma Rafowicz felt that it was “not serious to let the elephants responsible for our fall decide our future”, denouncing a little further “irresponsible old people”. “We don’t want to hear from you anymore. You made us lose. Let us win, ”launched this close friend of First Secretary Olivier Faure towards former party members opposed to Nupes, such as former President François Hollande or former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

Leading almost immediately to a lifting of the tubes. Thus the former spokesperson for the Socialist Party Stéphane Le Foll, Minister for all Hollande years, estimated on Public Sénat that “today we need people who have experience, and a little adults, rather than young people who have no respect at all”. And the mayor of Le Mans to insert: This is a real problem in society and within the left. »

“Amusing to see these “responsible adults” who did not dare to ume their formidable record in front of the voters in 2017 and who come to demand from Emma Rafowicz and her generation a little respect for the site they have bequeathed to us” , quipped, in response, the mayor of Ullis Clovis Can.

“Comrade Emma Rafowicz, instead of insulting old, I invite you to read Brens again, ”tweeted the first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, rival of Olivier Faure. “Thank you to all the socialists, youth And old, who know that time is irrelevant. »

“Violent and populist speech”

“Even old people listen to you”, warned the former Minister of Justice Marylise Lebranchu. Likewise, Julien Dray, who reminds Emma Rafowicz that “one day or another, you will be old, dear president of the MJS”.

Denouncing a “violent and populist speech”, the ex-MP Patrick Menucci wondered: “Can we be spokesperson for our party and express ourselves in this way? “, specifying that” the question will be asked Tuesday at the National Council of the PS “.

Straddling two generations, the deputy Jérôme Guedj defended the president of the JS: “The old what Emma Rafowicz rightly points out, it is the defenders of an old policy, of all ages, who have not understood that the world is changing, ”he accused.

Under the mandate of François Hollande, the young socialists had distanced themselves from the president, first on the forfeiture of nationality then on the El Khomry law. And during the 2017 primary, they overwhelmingly voted for Benoît Hamon, who left politics.

The former president of the National embly Claude Bartolone did not really respond to the spade, but he broadcast a tweet in which Nicolas Gaborit, member of the National Council, evokes the electoral results of the PS with or outside the Nupes. “With Nupes, the left would be behind Renaissance and the RN in the European elections. But leading with separate lists,” he wrote.

And the senator of Paris David ouline to close the ban with a little lesson: “It seems to me that the leaders of the JS should animate the movements of youth, ecologists, feminists, antifascists, go towards those of the popular districts, to make people want, instead to play the young red guards of a cultural revolution of operetta, against the ghosts of elephants”.