The mayoress of Lille and former first secretary of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, expressed on Thursday her “tremendous sadness” for the crisis that the PS is experiencing, hoping for a quick solution before the Marseille congress.
This crisis is “an immense sadness for me”, “we must stop: the PS is not a gang of cheats”, launched the mayor, questioned about the ongoing war between the leaders during his wishes to the press.
“There were real problems,” he said, referring to allegations of fraud and irregularities that fueled Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol’s challenge to rival Olivier Faure’s victory. But “that is not the reality of 95%, 98% of the sections.”
The vote of the members of the PS took place on January 19 and a verification commission finally gave Olivier Faure the winner with 51.09%, but the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, questions this result and calls for a recount .
“I think that on both sides we agree that this is enough and that now we must come up with operating rules for a party that brings us together,” said the former socialist minister.
Objective: Marseille Congress
“We must succeed, we are only waiting for that so that the Marseille congress,” this weekend, allows the PS “to return to being a solid, left-wing and government party,” he added, specifying that he did not intend to go. there.
“What bothers me is that we compare” the current crisis “with the Reims congress” of 2008, during which the Socialists failed to agree on an orientation and a leader, he also pointed out.
At the end of this congress, the militants had been called to the polls, and Martine Aubry reported, on November 22, 2008, a result contested by Ségolène Royal.
“We made a test commission”, “all the disputes are raised, each one is studied, and halfway through the test, Ségolène said ‘Ok, it’s fine’ and we signed the minutes,” said Martine Aubrey. Confirmed on November 25 after two days of work by the commission, she will remain at the head of the party until 2012.
Source: BFM TV
