The time of choice for militants socialistes

The Socialists are activists called Thursday November 20, to tie three candidates for the post of first secretary of the PS - Ségolène Royal, Martine Aubry and Benoît Hamon - in a ballot with a high suspense. This is the first time that three candidates are in contention since the introduction of universal suffrage activist among Socialists in 1995. And uncertainty is unprecedented, the Congress of Reims, which was the disunity and rifts, having failed to reach a majority on a name. 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The outgoing first secretary, François Hollande, has not publicly taken a position. LAST MEETINGS BEFORE THE VOTE Wednesday evening, the three candidates held their last meeting before the election. Ségolène Royal had, for its part, his supporters gathered in Paris. "The time is here, historical, and it is as François Mitterrand said, that we have the strength to remain ourselves and also the strength to change. This is what I propose!", She launched at the gym Japy Paris XI, to more than 800 -1 200 according to organizers. "Yes or no, do we want to write together a new page in our history vibrant and popular. The do you want?. Do you want to build the socialism of the XXI century. Do you want?. Do you want our party s 'opens to all differences and become better than he claims to transform society? "said the former candidate for the Elysee, incorporating as a leitmotif interrogative" want you? ". "We want to be reborn with a powerful party, a strong party and socialist proud of it", launched the president of the Poitou-Charentes, surrounded by his team, Vincent Peillon, Jean-Louis Bianco, Manuel Valls or Julien Dray. She asked "a militant vote" for "sweeping the reluctance and refusal" and "raise the certainty of transformation", referring to the "great responsibility to lead." Making a strong plea for Education and teachers that "the right deals with such contempt," Ms. Royal has held that "what has befallen the school is serious for students." "They found billions for the banking system and they bleed white National Education," she criticized. The former minister was found accents to Zola, running: "I accuse the right to power seriously jeopardize the future of Education, I am accusing the right power to fall back on an investment priority I am accusing the right to power impoverishment (...) Education, I am accusing the right to try to do anything against school failure. " "The country is calling us for a long time. Where are you socialists? Well we're here! Up! (...) Proud of being and serving the French. Forward!", She concluded, raising great ovation. Martine Aubry was it, in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, Wednesday evening for its meeting last before the election. "If we win we will win in a broad rally" and "the first thing I will do is reach out to Segolene," not a socialist does fail to fight against the policies of Nicolas Sarkozy, "said Mayor of Lille, before 250 activists and elected socialist Ile-de-France and Northern meeting "Magic mirrors, room of the fraternity", to Paris. "If tomorrow the militants choose me, it will be first team, the team of all socialist activists," she started. She pledged in case of victory "to establish teams renewed", "able to live different generations, with a total mix". She hoped that his "first site" is that "the fight against all discrimination." Mrs. Aubry said his "happiness" to be surrounded by former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and the member of Seine-Saint-Denis, Elizabeth Guigou. Also present were the President of the General Council, Claude Bartolone, the area IDF, Jean-Paul Huchon, and the member of Paris Jean-Christophe Cambadélis. Benoît Hamon has, he visited his hometown of Brest, for his latest appointment with his supporters before the election. "The last years, it has never been so easy to be left and we have never been zero," he launched at the federation headquarters of the Socialist Party of Finistère where was gathered a hundred people. "While the right does any of the shots towards the most vulnerable, the Socialists will give more shots than them blows to the right, it makes me a little wrong," he said, before ask the Socialists to "return home" and "fundamentals" of the left. To illustrate his point, he joked socialists on which "like cabris jumping in front of some government measures such as income solidarity and criticized the strategy of alliance with the center that he would lead the PS French at the same situation as his Italian counterpart that is "neither right nor left empty and its values." Defending the "clarity of my choice, my strategy, my candidacy, he also pourfendu the" logical impediment "in which he said were locked his two competitors for the post of secretary. Presenting itself as "the embodiment of the anchor left and renewal" of PS, however, he defended want a "reversal of generations", but expressed the opposite for a "generational mix" case or he would be elected first secretary of the PS.