The PS, incapable of serenely carrying out an internal democracy procedure, said Olivier Faure just renewed in his post as first secretary, despite the charges of irregularities made by his opponent, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
by Sandrine Cassini
Election tense to the Socialist Party (PS). In the aftermath of an agitated night, enamelled with contradictory declarations and accusations of mutual irregularities made by the two candidates for the post of first secretary, the PS delivered an official press release affirming the victory of Olivier Faure with 50.83 % Suffresses, against 49.17 % for his rival, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. The deputy of Seine-et-Marne, who has been leading the PS since 2018, would therefore have taken it away with only 393 votes in advance. “No final result can be proclaimed without validation by the harvesting committee,” reacted his opponent in the process, the mayor of Rouen, asking that “the choice of activists be respected”. This commission, which serves as a justice of the peace, is supposed to validate the scoring of the election.
Friday, January 13, during the first round, she had made it possible to refine the results, ending the battle of figures that the two parties had delivered the day before. Again, this tight ballot and the tense atmosphere that surrounds it shows how divided the PS is. With barely half of the votes, Olivier Faure has a strong tumbled in the hearts of activists, who had renewed it, at the end of 2021, with more than two thirds of the votes. Eight months after its signing, the agreement of the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts), which deprived of the hundreds of socialist candidates for the legislative elections, fractured the party. The accusations of subservience to Jean-Luc Mélenchon have visibly infused in the spirits, despite the efforts of Olivier Faure to stay at a distance from the bulky founder of Insoumise France.
“Lavable” show
Thirteen years after the Reims Congress in 2008, which had seen Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry tears up, before the latter’s victory of a short head, the PS again showed incapable of serenely leading a internal democracy procedure. All evening, the camps of Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol announced their respective victories and brandished questionable figures. Around 1:30 am, live on YouTube, the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, trying to whistle the end of the match, spoke to thank the activists, who made “so that [he was] Again the one who directs this great political training “. And to add: “It is now up to me to bring the socialists together.” At the same time, his rival made a similar statement, claiming the “confidence” of the activists. He also said he was ready to work “with all the socialists, at the gathering and the renewal of our political family”.
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