PS: Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the quadra which makes Olivier Faure tremble

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The mayor of Rouen, supported by Anne Hidalgo, faces the outgoing first secretary, this Thursday evening, to take the head of the Socialist Party. Portrait.

Through Valerie Peiffer

VS’It was during a dinner in Blois, at the time of the Socialist Party’s summer universities in August 2022, that Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol sealed his fate. While the majority of the guests – composed mainly of mayors in their forties – pleaded to change the PS from the inside by supporting the outgoing first secretary Olivier Faure, the mayor of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) took the decision to table a motion and to go all the way by presenting himself as the leader of the party.

A few months later, in November, “Refoundation” was born, a collective defending a third way, neither pro-Nupes nor anti. A judicious positioning which allowed Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol to appear as the novelty and the surprise of the 80^e PS congress.