Who will be the new First Secretary of the Socialist Party? The vote of the members of the PS was to decide between this Thursday the outgoing deputy and first secretary Olivier Faure and the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. On the night from Thursday to Friday, the two courses claimed to be in the lead.
Olivier Faure says he won the vote. “The socialist activists have expressed this afternoon through a clear vote their desire to continue the demonstration of the left and the environmentalists, assuring that I am the one who heads this great formation that is the PS,” he said in a statement broadcast live on Social networks. of the party
“An Attempt at Trumpification”
“Have no doubt. We have won. You cannot go back any further. We are simply facing an attempt to destabilize and truncate our friends. I am horrified by this election that is not up to the moment or the great democratic party that we are “, wrote a few tens of minutes before the outgoing First Secretary to his supporters.
But the side of Nicolás Mayer-Rossignol is in dispute and claims to be ahead of the outgoing management. The mayor of Rouen claimed to have gathered 52.4% of the votes, compared to 47.6% for Olivier Faure out of 84% of the votes counted.
“There is a favorable trend for us”, said the mayor of Rouen, who also requests “the cancellation of a certain number of results”, due to the irregularities observed, in particular in the Liévin section (about 300 voices), reports AFP.
David Assouline, a senator for Paris and a supporter of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, also indicated that “massive irregularities” occurred as soon as the polls opened at 5:00 p.m. in various federations.
“The votes are not fully counted and there is no indication at this time that you have won… far from it. Maybe that’s why you don’t give figures. What a shame for our party!” wrote on Twitter Vincent Duchaussoy, federal secretary of Seine-MAritime and support of the mayor of Rouen.
Both sides are already vowing to file appeals. A results verification commission must meet to confirm the results.
The future of Nupes at stake
The winner will be officially sworn in at the 80th Congress of the Socialist Party, to be held in Marseille from January 27-29. The result could have consequences for the agreement signed in May 2022 for the legislative elections with LFI, EELV and the PCF.
Olivier Faure defends his strategy of an “exclusive” left alliance, the only way according to him to block the right and the extreme right in 2027.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, more reserved about this agreement, does not hide his reluctance towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party. He has the support of the third candidate, the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Hélène Geoffroy, clearly hostile to Nupes, recalls AFP.
Source: BFM TV
