Elected since 2012 in the 11ᵉ district of the department, the first secretary of the Socialist Party has ahead of Charlyne Péculier, candidate of the presidential majority.
Le Monde
The test is transformed. After his victory in the first round, Olivier Faure managed, Sunday, June 19, to keep his deputy headquarters of the 11th district of Seine-et-Marne. The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) prevails with 64.45 % of the votes cast, ahead of Charlyne Péculier, the candidate of the presidential majority, who therefore failed with 35.55 % of the votes.
This victory, Olivier Faure owes it a lot to the agreement passed with the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nuts) so that the Socialist Party does not disappear from the French political landscape. This is, in any case, what he defended for several days, after the historic defeat of François Mitterand’s party during the last presidential election.
The elected officials of the PS who had decided to present themselves in dissent had various fortunes, on the evening of the first round, giving an argument to the political agreement passed with the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the other forces of the left . This alliance was at the heart of a deep crisis within the rose party.
At the height of the turbulence, on the eve of the PS National Council which was to validate the electoral agreement, the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve left the party, justifying wanting to remain “faithful to republican socialism”. Taking as an argument the request for union among the left voters, Mr. Faure faced some of the socialist elected officials, who believed that a joint program with rebellious France would be equivalent to denying the values of the PS.
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François Hollande also clearly pronounced against this union of circumstances. However, it was with him that Olivier Faure began his political career. For seven years, between 2000 and 2007, Mr. Faure was his deputy chief of staff. It was the former head of state who enabled him to obtain the socialist inauguration in this 11 e district of the Seine-et-Marne, in 2012. At the head of the party , Mr. Faure gradually attracted the wrath of socialist “elephants” because of his choices: sale of the historic headquarters of the rue de Solférino, rapprochement with environmentalists, proposal to change the name of the party …
“When I say black, they say white. What is painful is to be permanently with people who just want to drop the direction at the cost of manipulations”, he regrets to the world , in May. It remains to be seen what the first secretary of the party intends to do with socialist dissidents. Will he exclude them, or keep them within the party? This question should be decided in the coming days.