Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol continues to play his own score despite his agreement with Olivier Faure

Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol avoided all contact during the first day of the Socialist Party Congress, at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, on January 27, 2023. THÉO GIACOMETTI / HANS LUCAS FOR “THE WORLD”

In this month of February, he continues to reign for a Marseille time in the Socialist Party (PS). Three weeks after the congress, which recorded, in the Marseille city, the renewal of Olivier Faure at the head of the rose party, his main rival, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, became first deputy secretary, continues to play the troublemakers. Tuesday February 21, the mayor of Rouen published in The world a forum on pensionstitled “A real left-wing reform is possible”.

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This text, notably signed by the main figures of its current Refondations, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, is also a criticism in good standing of the management of the PS, which has decided not to not to propose a counter-project to the government’s pension reform, so as not to underline the differences of opinion within the left parties on the subject. “To beat the right, it is not enough to pound the pavement”wrote Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, adding: “From the left that we love, we expect it to chart a course and explain how to reach it. » “My goal is to meet the expectations of the French”, justifies the Norman city councilor, who did not consider it useful to warn Olivier Faure of his approach.

In the camp of the socialist leader, the initiative was badly perceived. ” The position of the socialists is to say that a reform is neither urgent nor relevant. Why then choose the elements of divisions on the left? », asks Christophe Clergeau, national secretary of the PS in charge of European issues. “We can’t play the inside and the outside”, confirms Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS. This close friend of Olivier Faure read in this text “a desire for emancipation” on the part of Mr. Mayer-Rossignol, who had nevertheless chosen in Marseilles to enter the management as first deputy secretary, by signing a “collective governance pact”which induces a certain solidarity between its members. “Either Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol is in the perspective of collective work, or he wants to make his small shop prosper, and that will be a problem on a daily basis”, analyzes Pierre Jouvet.

The tribune of the Rouen city councilor also intervenes at a time when the management of the PS announces that it holds the majority of votes in the national councilthe party parliament, which is made up of members elected by proportional representation at the congress and first federal secretaries designated throughout the month of February. “We will have a comfortable majority with between 159 and 161 members out of 302”, explains Pierre Jouvet. Without denying the advance of Mr. Faure, Mr. Mayer-Rossignol prefers to put it into perspective, stressing that the first secretary will hold barely more than 50% of the votes. “Politically, does the leadership want to lead with one bloc against another? Work in confrontation or reach consensus? »he asks himself.

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