The Socialist Party congress of 2023, which is due to have its epilogue in Marseille between January 26 and 28, will perhaps leave the same traces in its history as that of Reims in 2008, when Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry clashed. for party leadership. Unless it is compared to that of Rennes in 1990, when the heirs of François Mitterrand, Laurent Fabius and Lionel Jospin, had engaged in a fratricidal duel. Since Thursday January 19, Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol have been 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 its current leader, with 50.83% of the vote, failed to convince the mayor of Rouen, credited with 49 .17% of the vote. These figures, showing a lead of only 393 votes for Olivier Faure, remain to be refined. These are results “gross”taken from the minutes of the federations, before taking into account any irregularities during the ballot.
While accusations of cheating flourished in both camps during the night from Thursday to Friday, the management of the PS tried on Friday to prove its good faith and its “transparency”. For an hour and a half, she detailed the results of the votes for each department, from Ain to Val-d’Oise, indicating whether a report in good and due form had been signed, and mentioning any irregularities. . This litany was above all the demonstration that a large number of problems, small or large, marred 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 opposite to that of Nicolas-Mayer Rossignol, who reaffirmed his victory in stride, with a very small lead 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 relate, according to Mr. Assouline, to ” a thousand “ ballots, enough to vary the final result of “five points” in favor of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
Like an admission of failure
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