Leave the choice of activists, but expose their vote. Boris Vallaud, who arrived third at the end of the first round of the Congress of the Socialist Party, will vote personally for Olivier Faure, the first outgoing secretary, in the second round on Thursday, June 5, but reaffirms that he does not give voting instructions to his troops, in an interview with El Mundo on Sunday.
“I will vote for Olivier Faure,” said the head of the Socialist Group in the Assembly, but “my choice is not an instruction,” he insists, saying “too attached to the freedom of activists.”
The Landes deputy, who exchanged with Olivier Faure, reached the head (42.21%), and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Rouen, who arrived in second place (40.38%), justifies his choice by estimating that “he who led leading has legitimacy and, above the responsibility of gathers.”
He specifies that “also shares the line of the union of the left” of the first outgoing secretary. But his vote for Olivier Faure will be “neither a white check nor a magic board,” he insists on which he created the surprise by obtaining 17.41% of the votes behind his two competitors.
“If chosen, Olivier Faure will have to respond to the aspiration for the change of activists, to his desire to work in ideas, to his desire to be better taken in the strategic elections of the party, to his desire for a broad and united governance, respecting and listening to all sensibilities,” he warns of Boris Vallaud.
“Absolute modesty”
The Landes deputy says that he has obtained “firm commitments from Olivier” Faure, in his requests and promises to be “attentive to its effective implementation.” Boris Vallaud had launched himself in the battle of Congress as a candidate for the “reconciliation” of the party, fractured from the previous fratricidal congress of Marseille in 2023, and with the aim of returning to work in the PS.
Notably highlighted the idea of ”demarcation” of the company, began a “Léon Blum Academy”, a place to train and produce ideas, and launched an internal medium “The New Popular”.
Congratulations to having “shaken” the logic of the “block against the blockade”, Boris Vallaud believes that he has “parliamentarian the PS because no one has an absolute majority in the National Council (Parliament of the Party) and in the National Office (the Executive)”.
For him, the one who will be chosen, therefore, will have to “act of absolute modesty”, and even if Olivier Faure wins, “the PS will not be without Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol” and “Carole Delga”, the president of Occitanie.
Source: BFM TV
