Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the main opponent of the outgoing national secretary, still disputes the results and denounces “unacceptable haggling”.
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Lhe outcome of the election of the national secretary of the Socialist Party seems close. Olivier Faure was confirmed, Sunday, January 22, winner of the vote of the members to designate the first secretary of the Socialist Party, at the end of a commission of verification, but his competitor, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, always disputes the result, has we learned from both parties.
According to the verification commission, Olivier Faure, outgoing first secretary, won with 51.09% of the vote against 48.91% for Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, said a press release from the PS. But Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol asks to resume the work of the commission, which “have been interrupted” and could not be completed, and accuses his rival of a “forced passage”.
“The disputed votes have been reserved”
The two men have been arguing since Thursday evening about the result of the members’ vote, each claiming to have won the election. According to the PS press release, the vote verification committee, made up of representatives of the various policy texts and meeting at the Socialist Party headquarters since Friday, “closed its work today (Sunday) at 3:45 p.m. following of the refusal to pass to the vote of the representatives of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol”.
“After examining the minutes of the federations and studying the irregularity requests, and while the disputed votes have been reserved”, the press release indicates that Olivier Faure comes first with 12,020 votes (51.09 %), against 11,507 votes for Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (48.91%), for a total of 23,527 votes cast.
In another press release, those close to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol affirm that “the outgoing leadership of our party, supported by the representatives of Olivier Faure” proposed, after 15 hours of meeting, “to stop this systematic study and until the end of the results brought up by the federations and the disputes, in exchange for a global haggling of a result giving arbitrarily the majority to Olivier Faure”.
” This is unacceptable. No democratic party can accept it”, adds the camp of the mayor of Rouen, who asks to “resume the work of our commission tomorrow (Monday) with the elements requested (minutes of sections, lists of signatures, etc.) for to pursue “. “We call to reason those who imagine that a solution of passage in force is possible”, they add.