A historic debacle. The Socialist Party, credited along with its allies with 10% of the votes in the first round of the legislative elections this Sunday, June 11, recorded its worst setback under the Fifth Republic.
After five years in power, the PS bore the full brunt of the En Marche! wave and only improved Benoît Hamon’s very poor presidential score by 4 points. In terms of seats, next Sunday, the Socialist Party may see its group cut by ten.
After Benoît Hamon’s defeat in the presidential election (6.36%), the challenge for the Socialist Party was to limit the damage in a very unfavorable context.
But this disaster has distant origins…and, in some way, it was predictable.
It all goes back to the left-wing primary for the 2012 presidential election and the opposition between François Hollande and Martine Aubry, then the national secretary of the PS.
Defeated in the race for the nomination, the “Madonna of the North” managed the legislative campaign that followed the victorious presidential election and, in the sectarian spirit that suits her well, “stuffed” the electoral lists with her loyalists with the goal of making parliamentary life difficult for the new president as a personal revenge.
Once elected, they began opposition, initially covert before becoming public, to the government’s policy, which poisoned François Hollande’s five-year term: supply-side policy, revocation of nationality, Macron laws, etc., were the most striking examples.
All conducted by mediocre characters, motivated only by a foolish ideology, falsely donning the guise of the people’s defenders, while in fact, they were only pursuing a few moments of fame.
Benoît Hamon’s victory in the primary was the final blow: who remembers his inconsistent program (universal income at the forefront) and his electoral campaign worthy of a local election?
How could such a weak horse imagine winning a Grand Prix when it had the level, at best, to run a small race and even without the certainty of winning it?
Finally, the epilogue: a little rebellion here, a little rebellion there, the tree fell on their heads!
Final result: thank you and goodbye, the voters told them massively.
For many of them, it will rather be a farewell. But who will remember them? and above all, who will miss them?
by Garibaldino
