France’s Socialist Party confirmed on Saturday the re-election of Olivier Faure as the party’s first secretary following an agreement with his competitor Nicolas Mayer-Rossingol during the second round after several days of infighting.
The vote took place this weekend at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, where the 186 party delegates almost unanimously waved their red card validating the agreement between the two rivals.
Thus, after several days of the 80th Socialist Party congress, which started this Friday and will end this Sunday, Faure will remain the leader of the Socialist Party and will be flanked by two deputy first secretaries: the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland.
For her part, Hélène Geoffroy, who came third in the party’s first round of voting on January 12, will be the party’s parliamentary president.
«It has been a tense congress,» admitted Olivier. «We have reached an agreement on global governance that includes both the majority and the minority,» he added to the leader in statements collected by ‘Le Parisien’.
«Our responsibility is to make the left win, where we do not have adversaries, but competitors», has affirmed Mayer-Rossingol according to the quoted media, which until the end has threatened to attack in court the results of the militants’ vote.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
