The problem with the PS is not so much that it is divided as that it no longer thinks.

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The lack of noise produced by the Socialist Party congress and the ensuing competition between Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol , to designate, this Thursday, June 5, a new first secretary, with Boris Vallaud as referee , is not simply due to the fact that none of the protagonists has yet managed to appear as a possible presidential candidate. No, the media inactivity regarding the socialists rather reveals the weakness of their ideological and programmatic proposition.

The PS has excuses since it is looking for solutions that avoid simplification and