Three days after a decision of the judge in summary proceedings giving reason to four socialist members opposed to the new Ecological and Social People’s Union, the Court of Appeal has informed it, thus making the electoral agreement valid.
Le Monde with AFP
Reversal of the situation in the legal case which opposes the Socialist Party (PS) and four of its activists opposed to the electoral agreement established by the PS with the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). Justice validated this union on Friday, June 10, invalidating the decision of the judge of the Créteil summary proceedings which had judged that the PS had not respected the statutes of the party to conclude this agreement.
Seized by these four members, the judge in summary proceedings had considered that the agreement of the Nuts, concluded by the PS on May 5 with La France Insoumise, Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) and the French Communist Party, would have “had to be the subject of a national convention”, and had enjoined the PS to organize one under thirty days. He prohibited him in this expectation of “taking advantage of the Noups agreement”. After this decision, fell on Tuesday evening, the PS had appealed, passed into emergency procedure Thursday.
In the decision rendered on Friday afternoon, of which the agency France-Presse (AFP) had a copy, the Court of Appeal judges that “the manifest violation of the statutes is not established”, nor “the disorder Obviously illicit “, and” infirm “the order of the judge in summary proceedings. “The consultation of the federations and the ratification by a national convention do not constitute a condition of validity of the agreement in question”, considers the Court, which also notes that, “in terms of legislative elections, the designation level is either the national convention or the national office “.
The management of the PS welcomes the court decision
The applicants, four members who are not candidates for the legislative elections and who have no responsibilities in the PS bodies, had requested the prohibition to take advantage of the Nuts to prevent the exclusion of PS members presenting themselves outside The nugget inauguration. About sixty people are in this situation.
At the statement of this first decision, the number two of the party, Corinne Narassiguin, had estimated that this legal action, extremely rare within the PS, was of “political maneuvers”, intended to “fuel the division of the left “, and” who favor Emmanuel Macron and those who prepare the next PS congress “with the aim of overthrowing the current management. For her, “the agreement is fully valid and legitimate and it makes it possible to end unnecessary controversies”, added M me narassiguin to AFP. “The Court recognized what was obvious for us: the Socialist Party respected its statutes and the Nutps agreement is valid in the eyes of justice,” confirmed Cosima Ouhioun, lawyer of the PS. A legal sword in water for the minority current of the PS. However, nothing suggests that the fracture within the PS is closed as quickly as this double summary which closes, in three days, this internal judicial sequence.