The socialist family keeps its leader. Activists “re -elected” Olivier Faure At the head of the Socialist Party, confirmed the PS early this Friday morning on social networks. According to the party, he won 50.9 % of the votes cast against 49.1 % for his competitor the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
“Thursday, June 5, after a tight ballot, Olivier Faure was re -elected the first secretary of the Socialist Party,” the PS in a statement said.
Although the results of certain federations are still expected, they will no longer be able to reverse the result of the ballot, said the party. The final results will be ratified at the congress scheduled in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) from June 13 to 15.
“Neither a white check nor a magic slate”
Au premier tourthe first outgoing secretary Olivier Faure had come first with 42.38 %, followed by the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (40.31 %). The ballot had mobilized nearly 24,000 voters.
Boris Vallaud, leader of socialist deputies, had given no voting instructions to his 17.41 % of voters. However, he had indicated Only personally, he was going to vote Faurewithout granting him “neither a white check nor a magic slate”. He had called the first outgoing secretary to respond “to the aspiration for the change of activists” on the functioning of the party. The one who took the lead in the PS in 2018 after the ruin field left by the Holland quinquennium still is a favorite, but is accused by his detractors of managing the party in a “clan” manner.
The activists believed in it and followed him on this path.
As the PS works, everyone presented their vision in a motion. For the presidential election of 2027, Olivier Faure, who was one of the initiators of the Alliance Nups in 2022, then of the new Popular Front in 2024, defends the idea of a common platform of the non -melenchonist left, ranging from Raphaël Glucksmann to François Ruffin, who then designates a single candidate.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol wants to create a “great socialist party”, to bring together “those who are in the PS and those who are outside”, like Raphaël Glucksmann, Benoît Hamon or the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
