Olivier Faure does not want to leave room for the slightest doubt. “The result is crisp and clear. The time for votes is over”: the first secretary of the outgoing Socialist Party thus reaffirmed on Saturday in the JDD to have been re-elected during the vote of the militants. These remarks did not please his opponent at all. “An irresponsible outing” thus judged Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, while the committee for checking the results was still in progress.
A press release from the PS had proclaimed Friday morning the victory of the outgoing Olivier Faure, with 50.83% of the votes of the members, but the result was disputed by the mayor of Rouen, who invokes numerous incidents capable of distorting the result. The party has since been plunged into crisis, with each side claiming victory by castigating opposing cheating.
A commission of verification was therefore convened, Saturday since 1 p.m., so that the two parties agree on the figures for the Congress of Marseilles, from January 27 to 29. It was still in progress at nearly 10 p.m. “No irregularity is tolerable, but some fabricate doubt and create suspicion to taint the result”, critic in the JDD Oliver Faure.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol calls for “transparency”
On Twitter, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol therefore, unsurprisingly, castigated an “irresponsible exit”, “while our party offers a distressing spectacle, while the Ascertainment Commission is hard at work”. “I call once again for appeasement, transparency, respect for democracy and activists,” he added.
For Olivier Faure, his rallying line of the left with Nupes, tied in May with LFI, EELV and the PCF, is in the majority: “Everyone must admit that a line has emerged and that it is therefore not question of leaving the gathering of the left and environmentalists. A curled up PS, a PS that only speaks to the PS, it’s a dead end”. In an attempt to calm things down, he also promises that “Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol will be associated with strategic orientations, especially for the European ones, since it is on this subject that he has expressed his greatest concerns from the start”.