Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol urges Olivier Faure to satisfy “expectations of change” | EUROtoday

The mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who failed on Friday June 6 to take the top of the Socialist Party (PS), urged the winner, Olivier Faure, to satisfy the expectations of ” change “d ‘“Affirmation” and “Clarity” In alliances with rebellious France (LFI), throughout a press convention.

“Nothing will be as before”stated the sad candidate, who obtained 49.1 % of the vote, towards 50.9 % for the primary outgoing secretary, Olivier Faure. “There was a comeback. We have foiled the forecasts “welcomed the loser. He said the voters had claimed, voting for him, “Clarity on alliances and clarity on what the party must carry”And “The statement of the PS”.

“The score is much tighter than expected, it is a score that obliges outgoing management to respond to this expectation of change”he said, judging “Essential that in the coming days the outgoing direction gives wages”.

Invited at the “8 pm” of TF1 on Friday, Olivier Faure stated what he needed, “Now it is having the ability to each deliver collectively [s]to political household “after several months of campaign which spread profound internal divisions, but also “Gather the left and the environmentalists” And “Turn over the desk”faced with “The reactionary worldwide”. The first secretary also promised that his party was going “Go to the French” And “Reconcile the French, in a rustic that’s so fractured”.

Electoral agreements “on a case -by -case foundation”

“We are open to the rally”said deputy Philippe Brun, support of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, but “We is not going to go in a route if there aren’t any dialogue on the deserves, nor an artificial movement”he insisted.

Friday morning, the first delegated secretary, Johanna Rolland, close to Olivier Faure, said on Public Senate that the PS could again discuss electoral agreements “On a case -by -case foundation” With LFI to counter the National Rally (RN).

“We have always been very clear. Obviously Johanna Rolland is not as clear as weretorted Mr. Mayer-Rossignol. “We ask for absolute clarity on the refusal of this type of alliance”he demanded.

Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol makes him “The distinction with the Republican Front. It is not an alliance. In the case of an election between an RN candidate and a candidate of the Republic, whatever it is, we call it voting for the candidate of the Republic “he said.

As for whether Olivier Faure, re -elected the fourth time at the head of the party, could claim to be the socialist presidential candidate, he replied that “His legitimacy for a possible candidacy [n’était] not reinforced by the result “ the voting of activists.

Finally, on the idea of ​​a large programmatic platform by Raphaël Glucksmann to François Ruffin, which Olivier Faure defends for the presidential election, Mr. Brun said: “We are all for the union of the left, but that does not make a socialist project. We must have our own program, it should not be the updating of the new Popular Front ”.