Three days after the vote of the socialist militants, the situation remains always so confused with the PS. If Olivier Faure, the outgoing first secretary, reaffirmed on Saturday in an interview with the “JDD” having been re-elected, this statement was not at all digested by the opposing camp.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol immediately reacted on Twitter, castigating a “irresponsible outing”. This Sunday, January 22, it is one of his supporters, MP Valérie Rabault, who in turn believes that he is not ” not acceptable “ that the first secretary of the party claims to have been re-elected, without waiting for the ongoing verification of the results of the militants’ vote.
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“The show we give today is saddening and it is not worthy of the sincerity of the militants”reacted the Vice-President of the National Assembly, on Radio J. “The interview with your colleagues from the JDD is not acceptable. From the moment there is a commission, what is called a verification commission”responsible for carrying out checks federation by federation, it must “can go through to its end and not be polluted by declarations”.
“It’s amazing, I fell out of my chair”she added, about the statements of Olivier Faure, judging the attitude of the latter “not worthy of an outgoing first secretary”.
A party plunged into crisis
A press release from the PS had proclaimed the victory of Olivier Faure on Friday, with 50.83% of the votes of the members. But the result was disputed by Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who invokes numerous incidents. The party has since been plunged into crisis, with each side claiming victory by castigating opposing cheating.
A commission of verification was convened on Saturday, so that the two parties agree on the figures for the Congress of Marseilles, scheduled for January 27 to 29. But its results are still not known.
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“The result is crisp and clear. Voting time is over.claims Olivier Faure, in the interview he gave to the JDD on Saturday. “I am grateful to the Socialists for having confirmed me in the most beautiful of functions, that of leading and animating the party of social and ecological justice”.
For the socialist leader, her line of rallying the left with Nupes, tied in May with LFI, EELV and the PCF, is in the majority: “Everyone must admit that a line has emerged and that there is therefore no question of leaving the gathering of the left and environmentalists. A curled up PS, a PS that only speaks to the PS, it’s a dead end”.
He promised that “Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol will be associated with the strategic orientations, in particular for the European ones, since it is on this subject that he expressed his greatest concerns from the start”.
