The Issy-les-Moulineaux Congress was the second national congress of the French

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

(''Parti socialiste'' or PS). It took place on July 11 to 13, 1969. This marked the transformation of the old

French Section of the Workers' International The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was found ...

(SFIO) into the new PS. However,

François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...

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did not attend.

Jean Poperen Jean Poperen (9 January 1925 in Angers – 23 August 1997) was a French politician. Poperen joined the Communist Party (PCF) at 18, and was also a member of the Union of Communist Students. He left the PCF after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ...

, expelled from the Unified Socialist Party, joined the PS. {{French Socialist Party

References

Congresses of the Socialist Party (France) 1969 in France 1969 in politics 1969 conferences