Olivier Faure: a “very close election” for a “largely inaudible” Socialist Party
Renewed by a hair's breadth for a fourth term as head of the Socialist Party on Thursday, June 5, Olivier Faure leads a party that is "divided" and "largely inaudible" as the 2027 presidential election approaches. A difficult position, with "very little room for maneuver," observes the foreign press.
50.9% of the vote against 49.1% is what we call a narrow victory. A “small victory,” even according to Le Temps . On Thursday, June 5, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was re-elected for a fourth term at the head of the party with the rose against his opponent, the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
The latter, supported in particular by François Hollande and Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, wanted "more than anything to return to the foundations of social democracy and cut ties with the radical left, whose virulence has alienated part of public opinion, particularly on issues of secularism and anti-Semitism," explains the Swiss newspaper.
But it was the outgoing first secretary who won the election, with only around 500 votes ahead, which leaves him “very little room for maneuver” to lead his party towards the next elections.
Moreover, this narrow victory “also nipped in the bud the desire for a new line carried by his adversaries and thus leaves the French left in an even deeper unknown than the day before,” assures the Swiss daily. Indeed, Le Temps recalls, “the heirs of François Mitterrand had hit rock bottom in the election
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