The PS validates the very tight results of the first round of the Congress, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Olivier Faure qualified

Who will be the next first secretary of the Socialist Party? The members of the PS opted for the applications of Olivier Faure, which already occupies this position, and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen. They obtain 42.21% and 40.38% of the votes cast respectively, according to the final results communicated by the party this Wednesday, May 28.

Some 450 votes separate the two candidates who will decide during the PS Congress to be held in Nancy on June 13, 14 and 15. The leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud was also a candidate, but only obtained 17.41% of the votes, an insufficient score to qualify in the second round.

Olivier Faure “favorable” to a primary one, not Nicolas Maye-Possignol

The mission for Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol is to attract socialist supporters who voted for Boris Vallaud during this first round.

“I will seek to gather all the socialists beyond their sensibilities and, of course, at the forefront of which, Boris. Because for seven years we have undertaken everything together and that we share the same design,” said Olivier Faure. The latter urge Boris Vallaud to “join” to “form a new direction.”

For his part, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol launched a call similar to RTL, hoping that Landes’ deputy joins his “management collective”, to “falsify a Dream equipment“

Boris Vallaud, who was placed as a candidate for the “reconciliation” of the party, fractured from the previous fratricidal congress of Marseille in 2023, has not yet been expressed in his intentions for the second round. During the previous Congress, he supported Olivier Faure, who has been at the head of the Socialist Party since 2018.

Between Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Olivier Faure, there is an important divergence point: the organization or not of a primary one to the left to designate a candidate for the presidential elections in 2027. Olivier Faure says “favorable” to such a process, while Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol still calculated this Wednesday in the morning that “it is not absolutely the correct form.”