Socialist Party: Olivier Faure officially re-elected with 51.15% of the vote

On the second day of the Socialist Party congress, which is being held until Sunday in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Olivier Faure was officially re-elected on Saturday, June 14, for a fourth term as first secretary.

His victory, against his rival Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol , mayor of Rouen, was confirmed (at 50.9%) following the vote by activists on June 5, but the results revealed at the time did not include the vote in certain overseas territories, such as Guadeloupe and Martinique.

With their pink cards raised, the congress delegates ratified the official results on Saturday: out of 25,164 voters (and 24,809 cast), Olivier Faure ultimately obtained 51.15% of the votes (12,689 votes), compared to 48.85% for Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (12,120 votes).

The first secretary, re-elected for the fourth time as head of the Socialist Party, must now reconcile a divided party, particularly over its strategy for the presidential election. Like Boris Vallaud, the third-ranking member of the congress , he advocates a joint candidacy of the non-Mélenchonist left for 2027, ranging from the leader of Place publique Raphaël Glucksmann to the former LFI deputy François Ruffin.

His rival, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, is defending a candidacy from "a large Socialist Party" bringing together the Socialists and those who gravitate around them, such as Bernard Cazeneuve and Raphaël Glucksmann.

In an attempt to unite the party, the first secretary said on Friday that he was "open to the leadership having people from different political backgrounds in its ranks." "That doesn't bother me at all, on one condition: that the debate decided by the congress remains decided by the congress. We don't replay the congress every week," he warned in a statement to AFP.

His opponent is demanding a "joint synthesis" of the three opposing policy texts, and is demanding that the party affirm that there will be "no alliance with LFI, neither in the municipal elections, nor in the legislative elections (even in the event of dissolution), nor in the upcoming presidential elections." Olivier Faure has assured that the Socialist Party will "not go behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential elections" and that there will be no national agreement with the Insoumis in the municipal elections.