There's some lassitude at the inner struggles of the Parti Socialiste, which represents less an ideological choice nowadays than a "party of default for voting in the second round for the left wing". Accordingly, the main protagonists on the leadership struggle are not putting forward ideological choices - they are mostly career politicians who never held many such political opinion - but rather triangulation, trying to attract the right and left wing of the Socialist militant base, attempting alliances with various factions in the PS...

Too much tactics, not enough politics. Not all that interesting.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.