The continuous crisis between the first outgoing secretary, Olivier Faure, and his opponent, the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who each claim victory for the party leaders > By Sandrine Cassini
The Congress of the Socialist Party of 2023, which must know its epilogue in Marseille between January 26 and 28, will perhaps leave in its history the same traces as that of Reims in 2008, when Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry S ‘were faced for party leadership. Unless he was compared to that of Rennes in 1990, when the heirs of François Mitterrand, Laurent Fabius and Lionel Jospin, had joined a fratricidal duel. Since Thursday, January 19, Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol have engaged in a fierce battle, both claiming to have won the vote for the place of first secretary of the PS.
The press release published Friday, January 20 at dawn by the party, announcing the arrival at the top of his current leader, with 50.83 % of the votes, failed to convince the mayor of Rouen, credited with 49.17 % of the vote. These figures, mentioning an advance of only 393 votes for Olivier Faure, remain to be refined. These are “gross” results from the federations minutes, before taking possible irregularities into account during the ballot.
While cheating accusations flourished in both camps during the night from Thursday to Friday, PS management tried Friday to prove its good faith and “transparency”. For an hour and a half, she detailed the results of the votes of each department, from Ain to Val-d’Oise, indicating if a report in good and due form had been signed, and mentioning the possible irregularities . This litany was mostly the demonstration that a large number of problems, small or large, enamelled the ballot.
This did not prevent Corinne Narassiguin, the number two of the PS, from reaffirming “the order of arrival of the candidates”, considering that these famous irregularities were “more numerous at Olivier Faure than at Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol “. Close to the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, Christophe Clergeau judges that without these incidents, the first secretary would be “around 54 %”. An analysis opposed to that of Nicolas-Mayer Rossignol, who reaffirmed his victory in stride, with a very low advance however. For the socialist senator of Paris, David Assouline, one of his supporters, the score of the mayor of Rouen would be between “50.3 % to 50.7 %”. The irregularities would carry, according to Mr. Assouline, on “a thousand” of bulletins, enough to vary the end result of “five points” in favor of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
as an admission of failure
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