This Wednesday, February 19, representatives of the local section of Beauvais Socialist Party gathered the press. Hosted with the former Walter Amsallem mayor (93 years old), this meeting was an opportunity to highlight the party with a view to a full and whole union with the coalition that forms around Roxane Lundy (Generation.s), for municipal elections. An initiative that is not unanimous in local PS inserts.
“”We want to put ourselves around the table for a union of the leftexplains Patrick Gaillard, the assistant secretary of the section. We never said that we will not leave with her. But she would have to ask us the question. We are ignoredHe feels. According to him, it is up to the elected generation to take the first step. “”The logic is that the head of the list makes the gathering and calls everyone.»»
“Having one in the first eight”
These long -standing activists defend their presence in the Union list. Particularly with “25% of the votes to the last departmental” in 2023 and a good score in Beauvais for Raphaël Glucksmann during the Europeans. “She would have everything to gain from being with us. We bring him voices, ”says Patrick Gaillard. All believe that the Union of the Left is compulsory to win the municipal elections. And Walter Amsallem, “at the origin of five unions”, does not sulk his pleasure of seeing the different parties unite. “Me, it rejuvenates me,” he smiles.
The activists encountered are therefore not favorable to a dissident list. But still want to negotiate their entry into the Union. And pose their conditions. “”What to have one in the first eight and four or five on the listadvance Patrick Gaillard. We are not greedy.And for that he is ready to make concessions on the points of disagreement. Like the airport …
“Do not put the plow before the oxen”
Contacted, Roxane Lundy was a little surprised by this initiative one year from the elections. “”The parties are welcome, I respect them, I am myself inserted with one of them but it is a civic dynamic that we launched with Beauvais at the heart. And it seemed important to me to present my vision to all Beauvaisiens first.Too early to enter the negotiations, she said.
Maxime Loisel, PS activist who openly supports Roxane Lundy, has a very precise idea of the timing of this media outing. “”The reason is simple. Is that the congress arrives at home in June and that they will release“, He asserts. According to his explanations, we understand that there are two distinct currents today at PS Beauvaisien. And that these internal elections could completely renew the office. “”Discussions for the list is not at all the timehe said. We are not going to put the cart before the oxen. “
