The fate of the Union of the left structures the confrontation between Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, during the second round of the election for the head of the Socialist Party, Thursday.
by Sandrine Cassini
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol has the art of being where it is not expected. This Tuesday, January 17, we find the mayor of Rouen, rival of Olivier Faure for the leadership of the Socialist Party (PS), Japy gymnasium in Paris, applauding Mathilde Panot, very reassembled against the pension reform. “We will fold Macron and this government,” launches the File chef of the Insoumise France (LFI) deputies, in front of a thousand people. That evening, the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) is holding its first meeting against pension reform. On the platform, Olivier Faure, Marine Tondelier, from Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), Fabien Roussel, from the Communist Party (PC) and François Ruffin (LFI) follow one another to speak. What does M. Mayer-Rossignol do in this room, who has been giving a criticism of the alliance of left movements in the Nutpus since September 2022, in the Natps? “I remain faithful to my central route of gathering of the left, justifies the troublemaker of the PS Congress. Faced with the regression that the right wants to impose on pensions, we must remain united.”
Thursday, January 19, during the second round of the Congress, the forty -year -old who looks like the first class disputed the PS first secretary place for the current post holder. A week earlier, his orientation text, “refoundations”, won 30 % of the militants’ votes, before that of Hélène Geoffroy (20 %), who represents the supporters of François Hollande within the party. Trained in politics by Laurent Fabius, the councilor of Rouen judges the victory possible, with the help of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), who called his troops to support him.
In the aftermath of the first vote, the duo ended up in a Parisian cafe. Officially, “there were no device negotiations, she swears. The main subject is to bring Faure to fall.” But this beginning of alliance tenses the camp opposite. Will activists vote “The return of elephants?”, Lance, acid, Olivier Faure, waving the figure of François Hollande as a red cloth. On January 16, the former President of the Republic himself called, on France Inter, to vote for Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, which he deemed the most likely to “bring the socialists”.
“Impasse”
A call of the foot addressed to the many abstainers, most of the supporters of Hélène Geoffroy, who did not bother to move last week, it is believed to know in her ranks. Relatives of the first secretary, who obtained 49 % of the vote, are “reasonably confident”, believing that a bonus benefits the outgoing and that part of the members who voted for the Rouennais simply wanted to send a warning to Olivier Faure. It prevents. The latter does not expect to prevail hands down. The agreement of the Nuts has left traces among activists, to the point that the result of Thursday’s vote could hypothequate its future.
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