The Socialist Party’s vote counting committee had been meeting at the Socialist Party headquarters since Friday. It closed its work this Sunday at 3:45 p.m. following “the refusal to vote by the representatives of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol” according to a press release.
According to his count, Olivier Faure was re-elected as head of the party with 51.09% of the vote. In a press release on the verification commission, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol denounces the “global bargaining for a result arbitrarily giving the majority to Olivier Faure”. The challenger asks to resume the work of the commission, which “was interrupted” and could not be completed, and accuses his rival of a “forced passage”.
According to the commission’s count, the results of this election are as follows: votes cast: 23,527 cast, Olivier Faure: 12,020 votes: 51.09%. Nicolas Mayer Rossignol: 11,507 votes: 48.91%.
PS MP Valérie Rabault, vice-president of the National Assembly, had estimated a little earlier this Sunday that it was “not acceptable” that the first secretary of the party Olivier Faure claims to have been re-elected, without waiting for verification. the results of the activists’ vote. “The show we are giving today is saddening and it is not worthy of the sincerity of the militants”, estimated Sunday on Radio J Ms. Rabault, support of the rival of Mr. Faure, the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol .
Disputes from Saturday
A press release from the PS had proclaimed the victory of Mr. Faure on Friday, with 50.83% of the votes of the members, but the result was disputed by Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, invoking numerous incidents. A commission of verification began its work on Saturday so that the two parties agree on the figures for the Congress of Marseilles, from January 27 to 29. Olivier Faure, however, judged without delay, Saturday in the JDD, that the result was “clear and clean” in his favor.
“The interview with your colleagues from the JDD is not acceptable. From the moment there is a commission, what is called a verification commission”, responsible for carrying out checks federation by federation, it must “be able to go through to its term and that it does not not be polluted by declarations”.
“It’s amazing, I fell from my chair”, she added, about the statements of Olivier Faure, judging the attitude of the latter “not worthy of an outgoing first secretary”.