From the Côtes-d’Armor, Vincent Le Meaux, 44, including twenty-five years of activism in the Socialist Party (PS), is sorry. The president of the Guingamp-Paimpol conurbation has been suspended from his party for seven months. His fault, having contested the agreement of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) tied between La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and the French Communist Party, and having presented himself at the last legislative elections, in June, without the common investiture. “I feel like an outcast, marginalized”, testifies the one who has been a member of the national office since 2018. In seven months, the socialist has had no news from the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, to whom he has written several times, like three sections of the Côtes -d’Armor, and the local federal council. His case is not isolated. On June 28, the PS suspended seventy-nine dissidents, depriving them of the right to vote and to honor their functions within the party. Except that since then, almost nothing has happened.
Three weeks before the congress, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol has decided to put pressure on his rival, Olivier Faure. The mayor of Rouen, candidate for the post of first secretary, sent him a letter, demanding the reinstatement of the banished. “We demand the immediate lifting of the suspensions until the end of the congress process”, writes Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol in his missive. Evoking a « suspension fragile »that no ” need “ does not seem ” to justify “the mayor of Rouen evokes a “abusive procedure when, almost six months after being taken, the suspended comrades have, for the most part, not received a summons from the competent disciplinary commission”.
“They pretend to be surprised at trivial things: in any party, people who show up without being invested are excluded”, justifies Luc Broussy, president of the national council of the PS. Except that the ex-candidates are still waiting. Luc Broussy justifies the slowness of the procedure by “a series of circumstances”. Thus, the Conflicts Commission, which was supposed to adjudicate cases, did not have a chairman for several months. Justifications that do not suit Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who believes that, as in common law, one cannot maintain to eternal life sanctions against someone without a proper trial. “We ask the first secretary to propose their reinstatement to the national council, even if the disciplinary commission then decides”he says to Monde. Without which the congress could, according to the letter addressed to Olivier Faure, be tainted with irregularities, opening “the way to challenges, including legal ones”he threatens.
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