We knew the Socialist Party was in bad shape since the catastrophic presidential election. In the end, it may be worse than that. This Friday, January 20, its activists woke up to two self-proclaimed first secretaries, accusations of cheating galore, and executives who denounce “fake news”or even “Trumpist excesses”… The outgoing first secretary, Olivier Faure, and the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, both claimed victory, at the end of a tense evening which recalls, all comparisons kept, the fratricidal duel between Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry at the Reims congress in 2008. Even the merciless struggle that Jean-François Copé and François Fillon had fought in the race for the UMP in 2012.
What happened this Thursday, January 19? From the afternoon, concern could be read on the faces of the socialists present in the Parisian procession marching against the pension reform. We felt that something was afoot. At the end of the afternoon, the news of an assault
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