Tomorrow: La Rochelle, the Summer university of French Socialists

Each year, the last week-end of August, The French Socialist Party and the MJS organize the Summer University in La Rochelle (West of France). This summer university is the last one before the presidential elections, in May 2007. So this year, all the program is around the project that have been adopted two months ago. But of course, the media will focus on the competition between our different candidates. The members of the Party will elect him or her in November. Until now, we still have, at least 5 possible candidates (6 with Lionel Jospin).

MJS will have is own program (see the PS program here). This year, 500 young socialists will participate to our summer university. Me, i have the responsability of two things: the main conference on Middle-East and Lebanon, and a workshop on Latin America. For the conference on Middle-East, we have a speaker (Tarek) of PYO, the Youth organization of the PSP of Lebanon, and a representative of MERETZ of Israel (Yoav). A good opportunity to launch a dialogue on the way to go out of the very tense situation in Middle-East and debate for example on the proposal of a new Madrid Conference to launch a new peace process in the region. It is just an example, and i'm sure the debate will be very interesting. On the debate on Latin America, we have Antoine Blanca who is a former ambassador and wrote a book on the Left in Latin America. We also have Jean-Jacques Kourlianski, the national delegate of the PS on Latin America. MJS France is invited by the Youth of PT (Brazil) to participate to the electoral campagn of Lula in september. We will participate to a big event with Lula and the Youth leaders in "Cita de Deus", a favela in Rio De Janeiro (look at the Movie "La cité de Dieu" in French). So this workshop will be very important for us. On the international level, we also have a workshop on Europe with Ania, the secretary general of ECOSY, Brian, the international secretary of MJS Belgium, Benoit Hamon a french MEP and Benjamin Vetele, the Vice-president of the student union (UNEF). During this summer university, we also welcome a delegation of Democratic Party of Moldova (see my post here).
But the main point of the MJS university will be the meetings with all the socialist candidate for the presidential elections. We will meet Laurent Fabius, François Hollande, Dominique Strauss-Khan, Jack Lang, Martine Aubry and Lionel Jospin. A very taff program... I will try to blog during this week-end as it seems we will have Wireless everywhere. So if you have questions, just let in comments and i will try to give you an answer!

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