End of the holidays, back to work, back to school, all of this is already etched into the memories of a summer that passed like a breath.
Politics is once again imposing its rules and schedule: the right had its jamboree with the Friends of Nicolas Sarkozy, while the PC/Front de la Gauche had its Sea Festival.
And the PS?
Ultimately, the Nice activists, doubting the government policy that seems uncertain and even starting to disappoint its supporters, gathered to listen to the good words of their local leaders.
A sober reunion, more an exercise in pedagogy and foresight than a political debate as only the socialists know how to do! Is it governmental responsibility that obliges?
Introduction by Xavier Garcia, department spokesperson and one of the rising stars of the new generation of leaders, who claimed the ‘logic over time’ of presidential and governmental action, not forgetting to transform ‘security’ (a word that always resists in a left-wing assembly) into ‘republican order’ which is indeed less harsh and allows for ennobling a truth that the left had lost along the way. To conclude, proudly asserting that ‘the history of France is a bit more ours than others’, which in these somewhat confusing times deserves to put a bit of order into history.
Then it was the local leader Patrick Allemand who posed the question that everyone had on their lips: “When is the change coming?”
And the answer was, as they say to be trendy,… global.
Here are a few excerpts: “After Nicolas Sarkozy’s incantatory presidency, Franรงois Hollande stands firm in the face of difficulties. The President of the Republic does not want to be a left-wing Sarkozy… air and react.
In four months, decisions have been made, signals have been sent.
Reforms are more difficult for the left because we want to assert a policy that is not only effective but also fair.
You know our majority inherited a heavy situation, due to the negative effects of the crisis and the increase in debt due to right-wing policy, over a third more since 2007.
Therefore, we must refuse lessons from the right given its record.
We must assert a republican pact with the French that is long-term and involves the youth who are our future.”
What can be said: this general discourse seems quite simplistic. But new responsibility also demands a new style: thus we have measured and consensual socialists.
It’s one of the paradoxes of politics and at the same time one of the positive consequences of alternation.
