After a first round last week, a new vote must take place this Thursday, January 19 to decide between the two men and designate the First Secretary of the PS.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, candidate for the post of First Secretary of the PS against Olivier Faure, enjoined the latter on Sunday to accept the principle of a new debate before the vote of the members on Thursday, but was opposed to an end of non- received by the outgoing First Secretary.
The orientation text of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, rather critical of the left alliance Nupes, came in second position (30.51%) Thursday during a first vote of the members on the political line of the party, behind that Olivier Faure (49.15%), who defends the agreement concluded in May with LFI, EELV and the PCF.
“I hope that a new debate can be organized,” wrote the mayor of Rouen on Sunday in a letter to the outgoing First Secretary.
“In this spirit, I have already accepted the proposal of a television channel to organize such a debate ahead of the ballot” next Thursday, continued the Norman elected official, without specifying the name of the media.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol explained that he “strongly” hopes that Olivier Faure will agree to debate, “so that our exchanges take place in front of the greatest number and in the most in-depth way possible, with clarity, respect for people and sensibilities. “.
End of inadmissibility
The answer arrived on Sunday evening, through Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS and close to Olivier Faure, who underlined, in a message to the press, that the outgoing First Secretary was “not looking for national notoriety unlike our adversary”.
Pierre Jouvet remarks that on January 6, the candidates already confronted their points of view “during a debate organized by France Télévisions which lasted more than 3 hours”, and that “nearly 600 debates” took place also held in the sections and federations in recent weeks.
And he tackles: “activists would be interested to know if Nicolas has debated with Mayer-Rossignol to decide the line he intends to defend”.
“Is he for the union of the left, he asks, in which case this line is already embodied nationally OR has he chosen to put himself in the hands of the Dutch, signing the withdrawal and the step back of the PS as suggested by the agreement made “with the candidate who came in third position, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, who obtained 20.34% of the vote.
The latter, which has the support of PS elephants, called on members to choose Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol next week.
