Despite the agreement found on Saturday January 28 between the first secretary, Olivier Faure, and his rival, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the disagreements on the strategy and the rivalries remain whole in the Socialist Party.
By Sandrine Cassini
“With us, we can spend days discuss, nights to pick up the broken dishes.” Sunday January 29 in the morning, Olivier Faure summed up with humor the ten days of crisis that the Socialist Party has just crossed (Ps ). Re -elected in pain, the first secretary, who saw his prolonged mandate of almost three years, went down triumphant in the auditorium of the Palais du Pharo, in Marseille, where the 80
Before speaking, the deputy of Seine-et-Marne took the time to embrace many “comrades”, his clan of course, but also Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, his rival in the race at the post of First secretary of the PS, who challenged the results of the internal election for several days. “There have been hurtful words, overplayed disagreements, and a last week when many activists felt insulted, not respected,” he said, addressing his competitor yesterday. “But, you and I made a choice. That of going beyond these moments” and “do together rather than each other”.
“there is only one chef “
Olivier Faure knows, however, that a new era opens for him. First because Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, appointed first delegate secretary, will be keen to be heard. “This is the beginning of a big story, wrote the mayor of Rouen to his supporters this weekend. We will organize ourselves, structure ourselves again, continue and amplify our work.” Despite a title of delegate delegate , he imagines himself almost at the same rank as Olivier Faure in this “college direction”, acted on Saturday as part of a political agreement, in which the elected Norman finds himself at the same rank as the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland , ally of the first secretary.
“There is a first secretary but governance has completely changed. We have this pivotal role in the executive” of the party, detailed Mr. Mayer-Rossignol in Marseille, adding that “the balance of power in many instances is reversed or in the process of being “. He is taken a preponderant place in the national council, the “parliament” of the party, whose presidency will now be provided by Hélène Geoffroy, the third candidate for the head of the party, behind which the faithful of François Hollande stored.
Even more explicit, the mayor of Montpellier, Michäel Delafosse, says that the title of first secretary is only a simple “legal formula”. A way for this declared enemy of Mr. Faure to challenge his legitimacy. Among supporters of the party number one, we employed in Marseille to move this argument, recalling the statutes. “There is only one chief, he is the first secretary. He contrasts,” retorts Christophe Clergeau, close to Mr. Faure. The latter did not try to enter the controversy, simply promising to be “as collegial as possible”, always in “the search for consensus”. To have peace, his camp hopes that, in practice, Mr. Mayer-Rossignol will be too grabbed by his functions as mayor and president of agglomeration to really get involved in the life of the party.
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