The Socialist Party is rampant. Just elected first federal secretary of the PS in the Rhône, Christiane Constant is removed from office. The reason ? She wrote a message “containing a racist remark”.
“Following her election as first federal secretary of the Rhône of the Socialist Party on Thursday evening, Christiane Constant wrote a message containing a racist remark. The anti-racist fight is at the foundation of the identity of the Socialist Party, which condemns with the greatest firmness these unacceptable and criminally reprehensible remarks”, writes the PS in a statement.
The party leadership “immediately asked Christiane Constant to resign. Having not received a letter of resignation from him at this time, First Secretary Olivier Faure dismisses Christiane Constant from her functions “and” suspends her from the Socialist Party “, we add from the same source. Olivier Faure, specifies the PS, “will propose to the National Office, once installed by the National Council of Saturday March 11, to seize the National Commission of the conflicts to launch an internal procedure of sanction which can go until exclusion”.
The PS shaken by internal conflicts
According to the daily Progress and LyonMag, Christiane Constant, after her election as the first federal of the Rhône, wrote in a telephone message: “We eliminated all these macaques”. Christiane Constant was defending Olivier Faure’s line. The department is also that of the opponent of the first secretary, Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, originally from Guadeloupe and opposed to the electoral agreement concluded between the PS and the other left-wing forces including La France insoumise.
“These insulting and racist remarks are intolerable. I address my deep regrets and my full solidarity to the comrades of the Socialist Party targeted in this message ”, for his part reacted Cédric Van Styvendael, mayor of Villeurbanne.
The PS remains shaken by internal conflicts and disagreements a month after its congress in Marseilles, which resulted, after several weeks of invectives and accusations of fraud, in a compromise with the reappointment as first secretary of Olivier Faure, at the within a collective governance in which his main opponent, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, became first deputy secretary.