Olivier Faure’s camp claims to profit from an Irrattrapable advance, his opponent considers that he nonetheless imposes himself | EUROtoday

The battle of figures and statements started on the Congress of the Socialist Party (PS), after the second spherical. The camp of the primary outgoing secretary, Olivier Faure, mentioned, on the night time of Thursday, June 5 to Friday, June 6, being on the high of the militants’ vote, in accordance with provisional outcomes, confronted along with his competitor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who estimates that it’s too early to resolve.

The entourage of Olivier Faure evokes a rating of roughly 52 % to his benefit, with a spot of practically 500 votes, not caught in accordance with them, whereas the family of the mayor of Rouen announce a spot “From less than one point”And “A 50/50 score”.

“At this hour, Olivier Faure’s victory can no longer be challenged”assures the entourage of Olivier Faure in a press launch printed round 1:15 am. “What management communicated has nothing to do with reality”replied former senator David Assouline, near Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, saying that there was “A very nice comeback by Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol”in comparison with the primary spherical.

Personal assist from Boris Vallaud to Olivier Faure

From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, the 40,000 PS members have been referred to as upon to resolve to elect the quantity one of many left formation between Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, as in 2023. A harvesting fee, supposed to validate the outcomes, started in a single day between members of the assorted camps. Final figures are anticipated on Friday.

The deputy of Seine-et-Marne, Olivier Faure, got here on the high of the primary spherical (42.21 %) in entrance of the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (40.38 %). In the primary spherical, 24,701 activists had voted. The outgoing first secretary is in favor of a giant union of the non-Mélenchonist left for the 2027 presidential election, of the chief of Public Place Raphaël Glucksmann to the previous deputy La France Insoumise François Ruffin, with a view to a joint candidacy.

He had benefited from the private assist of the chief of socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud – third of the primary spherical with 17.41 % of the votes -, which had not given a voting directions to his troops, in an interview worldwide. Boris Vallaud criticizes the one who has been holding the reins of the social gathering since 2018 an absence of inside work and the social gathering division.

The MP for the Landes says he has obtained “Firm commitments” From the primary secretary to place the social gathering again to work, set up prolonged governance and resume a number of of its proposals, such because the creation of a coaching institute.

“Clanic” administration

“Boris Vallaud said he wanted change, and he chooses Faure. Where is consistency? »»questioned an opponent of the first secretary. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol had gathered around him an anti-Faurus coalition-he rejects this term-, from the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin Hélène Geoffroy to the president of Occitanie Carole Delga, via the deputy of Eure Philippe Brun and the mayor of Saint-Ouen Karim Bouamrane.

All accuse Olivier Faure of management “Clanic” of the party, and“Ambiguity” opposite Jean-Luc Mélenchon and “Insoumis”even if the outgoing first secretary has detached himself for several months from the one with whom he had made an alliance in 2022 with the NUPPES (new Ecological and Social People’s Union) in 2024 with the new Popular Front (NFP).

The mayor of Rouen called the activists who had not voted in the first round to mobilize to “Change”. The one who deplored in The Parisian a PS “Exsangue”advocates for 2027 “An important socialist social gathering” bringing together the socialists and those who revolve around, like Raphaël Glucksmann or Bernard Cazeneuve.

Two years ago, the Congress in Marseille had broken the party with the rose against the backdrop of fraud charges during the vote between the two candidates.