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Ségolène Royal ovationnée par les parisiens? - 02-02-2007 11:38:20 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
Un lettre de Carlos Moret, militant du PSE Paris, à ses camerades de parti:
Bonjour,
Peut-être comme pour d'autres, la perspective d'une présidence de M. Sarkozy me préoccupait. Champion de la sécurité, Ministre de l'Intérieur, voyant l'insécurité monter, s'enflammer, il a affiché une volonté d'ordre qui m’est apparue hypocrite, car il n'a rien fait et que la situation aujourd'hui est pire qu'en 2002. Et aussi, comme tant d'autres, le spectre de 2002 me hantait.
(...)
J'entends beaucoup de mes amis dire que Ségolène n'a pas de programme, que sa politique est floue, qu'elle fait gaffe après gaffe, et je ne les blâme pas. (...) Pourtant, la campagne interne du Parti Socialiste a montré qu’une bonne majorité des militants socialistes l'ont choisie face à deux autres candidats qui avaient fait leurs preuves. Alors, est-elle si nulle?
Ce que je me propose par ces lignes c'est de partager mes points de vue, car au fond nous voulons la même chose, une France qui soit un meilleur endroit pour vivre pour nous tous.
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Pour commencer ce projet, quoi de mieux que de lancer une chaleureuse invitation pour le Mardi 6 Février à 19h, à la Halle Carpentier qui pourraît être le lancement de cette campagne.
Pourquoi est-il important d'y aller? Moi, je dirai que la première raison pour y aller est de voir personnellement la candidate, et pourquoi pas, du même coup, le Maire de Paris. Les médias jouent un rôle important dans l'opinion, et Mercredi 7 février, Mardi 6 même, les médias vont titrer "Ségolène Royal ovationnée par les parisiens. Plus de 5.000 personnes ont assisté à la réunion...." ou, au contraire "Ségolène Royal boudée par les Parisiens. Moins de 3000 personnes ont assisté à la réunion...." . Commencer la campagne d'un bon pied est un avantage.
Ça serait bien de se voir Mardi, mais il y aura foule. À Mardi alors?
Carlos -
Tense political situation in Romania - 24-01-2007 18:56:27 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
I would like to draw your attention to an open letter from the international secreteriat of the PSD (from January 18):
Dear friend,
In the last two days, the President of Romania and the Prime-Minister of Romania, on the grounds of the well-known tensions, have unprecedented accused each-other of corruption and affiliation to oligarchic groups. In front of this extremely severe crisis of complete institutional blockage and of confirmation of the fact that the right wing power in Bucharest is involved in cases of corruption at the highest level, the Standing Bureau of the Social Democratic Party has decided today, January 18, 2007, as follows:
- the starting of the suspension proceedings regarding the President of the Republic for actions of grave infringements of the Constitution
- the preparation of a censure motion which shall lead to the fall of the Tariceanu Government and to the identification of a solution of overcoming the severe political instability that constantly affected Romania in the last 2 years
Tomorrow, January, 19, 2007, the PSD leadership will organize an extraordinary meeting with the EU and NATO ambassadors accredited in Bucharest, for informing them about the PSD positions regarding the political crisis ongoing.
We will inform you in the next period with the evolutions in Bucharest and the position adopted by our party.
Thanking you for your friendship and solidarity,
Fraternally,
Cristian Diaconescu
PSD Vice-President
PSD Spokesperson
Victor Bostinaru
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AUSTRIA GETS NEW CHANCELLOR - 08-01-2007 16:39:20 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
PRESS RELEASE
Party of European Socialists
8 January 2006
AUSTRIA GETS NEW CHANCELLOR WITH STRONG COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
Commenting on the announcement today of a new Government in Austria led by Social Democrat Alfred Gusenbauer, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, said
“The people of Austria voted last October for a fairer society and after months of waiting they will finally get a new Chancellor with a strong commitment to social justice. Alfred Gusenbauer is someone who has fought all his political career for better opportunities for ordinary people. He cares passionately about decent jobs, about good education, about quality public services.”
“I congratulate Alfred Gusenbauer. He has been the driving force in creating this new Government. If his coalition partners give him the chance he will be a progressive and capable driving force for a better and more inclusive Austria. ”
“Alfred Gusenbauer is also a committed European and I think we will see Austria increasingly engaged and active in Europe on jobs, economic growth and social justice.” -
Notes from the Congress - 19-12-2006 12:14:16 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
Eric Sundström, PES activist from Sweden
(Find his regular blog with photos from the Congress here )
is writing about the Congress in Porto:
Friday, December 08, 2006
At the PES Congress in Porto
Porto seems to be a great city, even though I have not had time to be a tourist yet (I am staying for the weekend though). The PES Congress has been taking all my time, I have written a lot for AiP from here and one article is already online. Read more at the PES blog, and chez Jon Worth.
The best thing about the congress is all the people you run into. Many people whom I got to know through ECOSY, IUSY and PES-activities are here. Quite a few of us are not here on an ECOSY-mandate anymore; the “y” in ECOSY and IUSY stands for young…
Random observations: All the important decisions are taken elsewhere (by the PES leadership), but Margot Wallström spoke bravely about the need for stronger European parties. For the first team, PES-activists (grassroots from the member parties) are here, a great development that also brought more fringe events (i.e. seminars) with it. The looong speeches and biiiig panels you always have at these events varies a lot in quality (you know, all the big shots want to speak). But I just listened to Howard Dean of the DNC and legend Jacques Delors and they were both really inspiring. Ségolène Royal’s entry was that of a rock star, and she really deserves all our support, but she needs to deliver more in her speeches (read what Jon says).
But in all I think the PES is moving in the right direction, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has done great job and will be reelected as our president today.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Time for PES Congress in Porto
I am just about to travel to Porto and the congress of the Party of European Socialists. I visited the last congress in Brussels in 2004 and had loads of fun, and I am confident this congress will be even better. Some 150 PES-activists (ordinary members of various socialists and social democratic parties) will participate this time, and that is a great development. The PES cannot only be a party for big shots in the different member parties. The activist-idea has been promoted by, for example, the president of the PES Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
Thanks to a financial contribution from the Social Democratic Party, three members of PES Stockholm will travel to Porto (Shoresh Rahem, Karin Boman Röding and I). I am looking forward to two hectic days, but then Shoresh and I will hang around in Porto for the weekend. You can follow the congress here. -
A chance for France, for Europe and for the World? - 28-11-2006 14:51:29 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
[This blog entry has been written by Carlos Moret, born in Argentina and living in Europe since more than 40 years. He became a PS member, seduced by the internal conviction of the party. Then he became a European citizen and joined PES activists with the intention "to contribute to the building of a strong PES for the best possible Europe we can dream of".]
A chance for France, for Europe and for the World.
France's PS elects it's presidential candidate.
On November 16th, France's Socialist activists elected Ségolène Royal it's presidential candidate for the coming elections in early 2007, by a landslide more than 60% vote.
For the first time, there is a public debate on the PS’s (France's Socialist Party) primary election.
For the first time, the PS opens itself in an effort to become closer to it's base. The number of activists almost doubled.
For the first time, the PS elects a woman candidate, mother of four, to become France's president.
The changes in the PS
The PS had been through troubled waters; firstly there was the april 2002 catastrophic defeat. Next came the referendum on the European Constitution which divided the party. Everything tended to make us think that we would be out of the race for decades.
In the Le Mans Congress Secretary General, François Hollande managed to to reunite the Party. The Party base was broadened; it was made easy and attractive for new activists to join. On the practical side, it became possible to join the party over the net, and the fee was lowered down to 20_€
The move was well timed, because it came at a moment in which there was a strong demand to participate, and once the conditions were given, new activists joined massively.
Several factors were behind this movement:
The French were traumatized by the previous presidential election in which the socialist candidate was eliminated in the first round, forcing us to vote for the centre right wing candidate on the second round in order to defeat the far right wing Front National candidate that had scored second. People understood that just voting on national elections was not enough, and, since a chance was given to us to act on the choice of our candidate, we could not miss it. Therefore we joined.
The actual Minister of Interior shows a clear right wing authoritarian tendency, and it is no secret he wants power and hence to run for president. The fear of having Mr. Sarkozy president prompted many PS sympathizers to join the Party to have a more active role in keeping him out of office.
A new figure appeared in the political scene, within the Socialist Party, who soon became very popular: Ségolène Royal, a woman, was not the classical politician, she was not a Party aparatchik.
What is so special about this election?
When the PS decided to open itself to a broader base, new activists swarmed. Most of them were left wing and had always voted left, but never took the step to join a party. The whole system did not attract them, it was not clear to see amongst the different rivalries, personal interests, inaccessible chieftains. Suddenly the PS opens its doors to us, asks us our opinion on the project by which we will govern the country, gives us a voice and a vote to choose our presidential candidate.
The vote is clear, more than 60% of the vote for a newcomer, the rest divided between the other two great leaders who had held office several times, one had been Prime Minister, the other held the economy portfolio.
Activists showed that they wanted change, a new way of making politics, and that not only new activists, but all of us.
What is so special about the elected candidate?
Ségolène Royal is no newcomer in politics, but she tended to keep a little on the side. She held office several times, but in those ministries often reserved for women: Environment (1992-1993), schooling (1997-2000), family (2000-2002). She never belonged to a current.
It is only when she ran for office in the Regional elections, and won in a traditional right-wing region that her style and dimension bloomed. She is currently President of the Region Poitou-Charentes and Congresswoman for Deux Sevres since 1988.
Apart of being a qualified person to govern, Ségolène Royal is a woman, mother of four. She dresses as a woman, talks as a woman, thinks as a woman, acts as a woman, and that is new in politics.
Whilst perfectly integrated within a representative democracy, she seeks to give as much place to participative democracy as possible. She is a very good listener that considers that the people know best what is good for them.
Another difference with traditional politicians is that Ségolène is not afraid of speaking clearly, and plainly. She is not afraid of bringing up those subjects that are taboo., neither to back up if she realizes she is wrong.
She speaks to, and listens to everybody, regardless of their social level, origin, age etc. in short, she communicates.
Mme Royale adresses the subjects the majority of the people are concerned with ; equality, which starts with school, the environment, security, employment.
In 2008 France will have the rotating presidency of the EU, and hopefully Mme. Royal will be the President. Europe is stalled - in part maybe because of the French No - hopefully in 2008 the EU will be on it's wheels again, with France up to what is expected of her! -
International Secretary Social Democrats, SLOVENIA: Local election results - 27-11-2006 14:59:51 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
Information on the Local Elections in Slovenia
In November 2006 local elections took place in 210 Slovene municipalities to elect mayors under the majority system and municipal councillors under the proportional system. The election turnout was 58.22%.
In the Social Democrats we are quite satisfied with election results. We managed to consolidate our position as the third most powerful political party in the country, turn the party's success trend upwards for the first time, significantly reduce our distance from both leading parties and win 105 new seats in municipal councils (from 282 to 387) as compared to the 2002 elections.
The results of municipal council elections were as follows:
Political Party: % votes 2006
LDS ( Liberal Democracy of Slovenia): 14,95
SDS ( Slovene Democratic Party): 16,75
SD (Social Democrats): 11,98
SLS (Slovene People’s Party): 9,40
NSI ( New Slovenia - Christian People's Party): 6,33
DESUS (Democratic Party of Retired People of Slovenia): 5,24
SMS (Party of Slovenia's Youth): 2,21
SNS ( Slovenian National Party): 2,46
AS (Active Slovenia): 1,58
Independent and non-party lists, others: 29,10
These were the first elections following the victory of the centre-right coalition led by the SDS (Slovene Democratic Party) at the last general elections in 2004 and many people anticipated a major predominance of the governing coalition parties at the local level too. However, apart from the rise of the governing SDS, none of the other centre-right coalition parties (SLS, NSi, Desus) won more votes than four years ago. Among opposition parties the Social Democrats were the only ones whose voter support grew.
While we can be very satisfied with the result of elections for municipal councillors, we were slightly less victorious than expected in mayoral elections. In the overall number of mayors we still have a similar number as four years ago, but on the other hand our candidates in both largest cities, Ljubljana and Maribor, failed to win another term. In other cities the party managed to maintain or even strengthen its position. As for the capital, we saw a unique case of an extremely resounding victory by an independent candidate and his candidate list, who managed to beat practically all political parties. He was also sucessful in convincing the left-right oriented electorate, which still has a majority in the capital, by promoting a programme and values close to our own electorate. Such results are an important warning for the activity of our party over the next two years until the general elections.
Let me also mention two important features characteristic of the last elections and, in our view, of the broader trends in Europe as well.
The first characteristic is the growing distrust in political parties reflected in the higher number of councillors and mayors elected from among non-aligned and independent candidates and candidate lists. For all parties, and in particular for the left ones, this fact is important both in the planning of day-to-day activities and in devising our strategies.
The second characteristic is the upsurge of extremely aggressive and intolerant election campaign of some, generally independent candidates and candidate lists supported by the capital and right parties. This was the first time Slovenia saw a negative campaign of this extent, since despite all circumstances we always managed to preserve an appropriate level of political culture in election debates so far. Regrettably, we believe this too is a reflection of the present coalition's activity and some of its acts and measures as well as tolerance of aggressive behaviour among its members.
Nevertheless, we, the Social Democrats are planning our activities for 2008 with optimism; our intention is to present an alternative government programme and compete as an alternative to the present governing coalition.
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