The Créteil judicial court invalidates the conditions for validation of the rally agreement voted by the Socialist Party.
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A few days before the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday, June 12, the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) faces a judicial decision which could ultimately call into question the alliance of the left. Tuesday, June 8, the Créteil judicial court, seized in summary proceedings by four socialist activists, reached the conditions of validation of the Nuts by the Socialist Party (PS). According to the judgment, the management of the PS should have organized a national convention, which includes activists. And not be content with a vote of the National Council, the “Parliament” of the PS, on May 5, to endorse this agreement between the PS, La France Insoumise (LFI), the French Communist Party (PCF) and Europe Ecologie- Greens (EELV) to give birth to the NUPS.
In his decision, the judge enjoins the PS to organize a national agreement within thirty days, under penalty of a financial penalty of 500 euros per day. “We have obtained everything we asked, confirms Maître Frédéric Scanvic, lawyer for the four applicants. Entering the PS to organize a national convention. We also asked that the PS could not claim the agreement, for, in particular, not being able to exclude dissidents from the party who presented themselves outside the agreement of the Nuts. This is what the court decided. “
” The debate on the substance by the Congress ”
The PS has decided to appeal the decision – appeal which is not suspensive – and reacted under the pen of Corinne Narassiguin, number two of the party, which sent a letter to the first federals: “At the time when The gathering of the left and ecology is experiencing a real political dynamic, certain members of our party wanted to play the game of the presidential majority and thus reveal their true intentions by attacking the Nuts, by all the means of procedural And by turning to the judges. (…) Such a national convention could not have been organized within the time limits before the deadline for submitting applications, May 20. This is not disputed by the Affairs, thus demonstrating their sole desire to harm a political dynamic. We consider, moreover, that the debate on the merits will be decided by the Congress of the PS which will be held in the fall of 2022. “
Corinne Narassiguin notes, however, “that the judge in summary proceedings did not cancel the agreement which links the PS to the NUPs or the designations and supports adopted by the National Office.” “It is logical that the court did not have Not censored the agreement of the Nuts itself, since that was not our request, “retorts M e scanvic.
The PS knew that his internal procedural choice could be attacked in court. In the preamble to the National Council of May 5, which had validated, at 62 % of the votes, the agreement of the Nuts, Patrick Mennucci, member of Standing the Socialists, the minority current of the party, had warned: “Article 5.1. 1 of the party obliges, for a political agreement of this nature, the meeting of a national convention and the consultation of its activists. It seems necessary to enforce the statutes of the party. “