Yesterday was the internal elections within the Socialist Party. Three figures of the party were candidate for the next presidential elections: Segolene Royal, president of the region Poitou-Charente, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former minister of Economy, and Laurent Fabius, former prime minister and minister of economy. Segolene Royal won at the first round with 60.62% of the votes, Strauss-Kahn obtained 20.83% and Fabius 18.54%. The turn-out was very important, more than 80%.Segolene Royal is now officially the candidate of all the socialists for the next presidential elections. The two other candidates already congratulated her and call for the unity of all the socialists for the next elections. You can read here the reaction of Laurent Fabius and here the one of DSK.
Against Nicolas Sarkozy (who will announce his candidature before the end of the month) and the right-wing, the Left will have to be strong and united. Now we will start the mobilization around the project of all the socialists and our candidate, Segolene Royal.
The MJS will continue its mobilization and already prepare the campaign. As Razzye Hammadi said, "proud to be socialist, proud of our project, proud of our candidate". You can find here the letter of Razzye related to this internal elections.
In these last weeks, the Party showed the way. Our internal debates was good, with public debate at the television. The socialists took the time to listen with respect all the arguments of the different candidates. This internal debate created an interest within the french society. We show the strongness of a party able to organize debate on the contents and democratic process. The right-wing party UMP makes all the contrary. No debate, no discussion. Their vision of the party is the one of a club of supporter ready to campaign for the "chief".
Our party changed a lot also. Nearby 70000 new members jjoined us since the beggining of the year and participated to their first internal elections. Lots of things need to be changed in this party. That's why we fight since 2002 for a "New Socialist Party". We have to create an open space of debate, discussion and mobilization. We have to make the links with the popular classes, too often forgotten in the public discussions. We need a party always more political. It is thanks to a strong Socialist Party that we will win the next presidential elections.Read more about the internal elections:
The results
The announcement of the results
Blogoroz, analysis of the debate and links to other socialist blogs
Yves Formentin "Segolene Royal presidente en 2007", Anthony Sebille, Sylvain Elies, Pierre Kanuty ...
