PS: “Faure's difficulty is to create a line between Hollande and Mélenchon”

The political scientist Pierre-Nicolas Baudot deciphers the reasons and the failures of the strategic inflection of the Socialist Party. While the non-censorship of the Bayrou government does not definitively compromise the union of the left, he recalls that the latter was already in bad shape before the dissolution.

In an interview with Expresso published today, immigration was one of the main topics, but also the municipalities of this year or the presidential elections of 2026, about which he assumed that it was “important that there be only one candidacy” from the PS political camp because it “increases the chances of victory”. On the issue of immigration, the leader of the PS promised by the end of the month a proposal to end a “no-man's land situation …

Pedro Nuno Santos believes in the possibility of early elections. In an exclusive interview with the newspaper Expresso, the Secretary General of the PS revealed that he already has dates for the General States, which will serve to prepare the party.

“Last week, to the great satisfaction of the press and the mainstream media, which, as we will see, warmly welcomed this rescue by presenting it as a guarantee of reason and wisdom, the Bayrou government survived...

Saying that “the circumstance” of the legislature being interrupted by early elections “cannot be ruled out”, the Secretary General of the PS reveals, in an interview with Expresso, how he modeled the base schedule of the next General States of the PS based on this circumstance. “We don't know when there will be elections but the PS must be prepared” for “any eventuality”