Results far from the plebiscite. Olivier Faure was closely selected at the head of the Socialist Party this Friday, June 6. After a battle of figures at the beginning of the night between the first outgoing secretary and his rival Nicolas Mayer-Possignol, Olivier Faure finally announced 49.1% of the 49. Who recognized his defeat.
Olivier Faure benefited from a more favorable postponement from Boris Vallaud’s voters, eliminated in the first round of Congress, which had not given a voting instruction, but indicated that he would support him personally.
This election has seen that two different strategic visions compete for the presidential elections of 2027. Olivier Faure and Boris Vallaud advocate a joint candidacy of the non -Mélenchonista who went by 2027, from the leader of the public place Raphaël Glucksmann to the former deputy LFI François Ruffin.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol on the other hand defends an application of “a great socialist party” (“GPS”) that brings together the socialists and those who revolve, such as Raphaël Glucksmann or Bernard Cazeneuve.
A divided part
During the campaign, the opponents of Olivier Faure marked their reproaches to the head of PS, accusing him of managing the game in a “clan” way. They also punished their “ambiguity” against Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the rebel of France, even if the first outgoing secretary has separated for several months since who had made an alliance in 2022 with the NUTPUS and in 2024 with the new Popular Front.
After the calamito memory of the Marseille Congress in 2023, where the two men who already faced had been fighting when each of them claimed, the two fields were interested in not reproducing the same stage and Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol ended with their defeat.
But the mayor of the mayor of Rouen saw in these very tight results “a real negative for the outgoing address, unable to have a majority in the first round on May 27, and that does not obtain a clear majority in the second round”, in a press release sent at night. “The Socialist Party is clearly divided,” he added.
“Nothing will be as before. (…) The score is much stricter than expected, it is a score that forces the outgoing management to respond to this expectation of change,” said Nicolas Mayer-Dossignol at a press conference this Friday, considering “essential that in the days that leave outgoing management.”
The mayor of Nantes near Olivier Faure, Johanna Rolland, refuted everything “negative” in BFMTV this Friday, speaking of a “clear vote” and a “peaceful situation in the Socialist Party.” “There is a tight result, we say it clearly, but we say it calmly,” he said.
“Weak” legitimacy for Olivier Faure
What confirms Rémi Lefebvre, professor of political science at the University of Lille and PS specialist, in France between this Friday, before the gap of the very weak votes between the two candidates: “The problem of Olivier Faure is that his legitimacy will be weak, especially as in the national authorities, he will not be the majority” and will have to address the camps of other candidates.
“His leadership is low at a time when the PS will need great impulse,” said the researcher at the Center for Administrative, Political and Social Research (Ceraps).
“The question was: will the Socialist Party have a candidate for the presidential elections or will it be in a dynamic to meet the left?
A division of which former macronista minister Clément Beaune would like to take advantage. With the Parisian, he proposed this Friday the creation of “a sustainable coalition of the social-democratic PS in LR”, launching a “call” to those found in the Nicolas Mayer-Possignol line. Or half of the voters of the PS Congress.
Olivier Faure’s camp will now have to try to unite the party. In BFMTV, Johanna Rolland said she wanted to “collectively build” and “reach” all the talents “of the Socialist Party.
Source: BFM TV
