Agricultural exhibition: for Olivier Faure “sociflar, an aperitif is also our culture”

These words are enough to make you smile. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, who attended the Agricultural Exhibition this Monday, defended himself against the leadership of a purely urban party, believing that the elected representatives of the PS “know our territories very well.” “Sasiflar, an aperitif, is also our culture,” smiled Olivier Faure on Monday in front of the stand of French brewers after a meeting with spirits producers. “I’m not going to engage in demagoguery or caricature, but we also protect a way of life. »

For Olivier Faure, the “legend” that the PS was an urban party “persisted for a long time because we had parliamentarians who came from large metropolitan areas. But “for some time we’ve had mostly people who come from rural or suburban backgrounds,” “elected officials who know our territories very well,” he assessed.

“A communist and therefore a participant, I do not ask for copyright,” retorted the national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, ironically.

“But who voted for CAP? »

Regarding the European elections, in which the PS and Raphael Glucksmann’s Place Publique will form a single list, Olivier Faure regrets that the media world “only remembers the match between, on the one hand, Bardella (head of the RN list) and on the other hand Macron. “But who voted for CAP? “, The European Common Agricultural Policy, at the center of the anger of farmers who demand a revision, “Bardella, like Attal, and his representatives. »

“We refused to vote for him because we knew well that this would lead to gigantic distortions in the peasant world and that this would essentially benefit the biggest,” says the first secretary of the PS. If the latter defends against any gap between the PS and the rural world, this argument is sometimes used, also within the country.

In rural areas, the left’s banner is “becoming repulsive,” as party vice-president Lot Remy Branco, a socialist, assessed in a paper published in mid-February. He describes the political family being perceived in the rural world as “teaching lessons” or as “an elite imposing a model of life”, calling on the left to “seek ways of reconciliation” with the countryside, convinced that both have a “common future”. ” »