Olivier Faure, trompe-l’oeil winner, sees his room for maneuver is lowered | EUROtoday

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The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, in Dunkirk, on May 1, 2025.

Like a socialist chorus… Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol had nonetheless promised it by beginning this 81e Congress of the Socialist Party (PS): Above all, don’t reproduce the catastrophe situation of Marseille in 2023 which had left the PS reduce in half, on the sting of the implosion. It’s the identical movie that’s replayed. According to provisional outcomes printed on the night time of Thursday June 5 to Friday June 6, the primary outgoing secretary was re -elected to the top of the celebration with 50.9 % of the bulletins, towards 49.1 % for the mayor of Rouen. Some 500 voices would separate the 2 males, already opponents two years in the past.

While Olivier Faure’s camp rapidly claimed the victory shortly after midnight, the supporters of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol tried to delay the triumphant story of their rivals by organizing a press convention in debt, through the night time. “It is not reality. There are less than 200 votes apart. We are in the margin of error and no one can say that he has won ”assured Hélène Geoffroy and David Assouline, lieutenants of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. A tighter consequence than anticipated, which can also be confirmed by the entourage of Boris Vallaud, who arrived third within the first spherical, on May 27.

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