We will have to ask for the VAR. The outgoing Olivier Faure and his rival Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol each claimed, on the night of Thursday to Friday, to have won the ballot designating the next First Secretary of the Socialist Party.
The activists “expressed this evening, by a clear vote, their desire to continue the rally of the left and environmentalists by renewing their confidence in me and by ensuring that I am once again the one who leads this great political formation”, a declared Olivier Faure, while Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol proclaimed for his part “a victorious ballot” and “53.47% of the votes out of 90% of ballots counted”, a “gap not recoverable” according to him.