Olivier Faure finished very far ahead of the poll to appoint the new leader of the Socialist Party.

On 80% of ballots counted at the very end of the evening Thursday, the current first secretary of the PS had already collected 73.6% of the votes.

Ultra-favorite to his succession, the deputy for Seine-et-Marne faced Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin.

This victory, obtained during a vote organized for nearly 22,000 members up to date with contributions in 2,500 offices, was a formality in view of the large victory of Olivier Faure.

In office since 2018, will not be officially re-elected until the results have been ratified, during the party congress on Saturday and Sunday in Villeurbanne.

Olivier Faure supports Anne Hidalgo as a PS candidate

To explain the absence to this one of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, supported by Olivier Faure, her entourage explains that she has already "come to the summer days of the PS in Blois" and "respects the internal life of the party », But that it« never got involved in internal currents ».

To obtain the socialist nomination, Anne Hidalgo must however go through an internal vote of the militants, after the congress, to decide between possible competitors, such as the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll.

Olivier Faure had written in black and white his desire to designate Anne Hidalgo as a candidate for the PS in his political orientation text, submitted to the vote of the militants on September 10.

Hélène Geoffroy, former Secretary of State for the City (2016-2017), denounces a strategy of "erasing" the First Secretary, because Olivier Faure advocates the union of the left and had mentioned the idea of ​​" tidy "behind an environmental candidacy for the presidential election if the latter seemed better placed.

“On the contrary, everything proves that there is no erasure strategy,” pleaded for his part Olivier Faure, who had taken the reins of the party in the midst of the debacle in 2018. His supporters emphasize on the contrary that he has "Straightened out the party".

The presidential "project" of the PS validated at Congress

The Congress should also validate the presidential "project" of the PS for 2022, amended by activists in recent weeks following its presentation at the party's summer days in Blois. A project, under the leadership of the deputy Boris Vallaud, which makes a hundred proposals, and for example plans to "make possible the referendum of shared initiative", create "a minimum youth", "replace the GDP index by indicators economic taking into account the quality of life or sustainable development ”, and“ transfer to the Prime Minister the power to dissolve the Assembly ”. “It's been 10 years since there was a socialist project,” Olivier Faure recalled.

Will it be taken over by candidate Anne Hidalgo?

Mystery.

The latter, which has not officially given its opinion, is not bound to follow it.

"She will be able to dig into it", we say to the PS.

The candidate, who for her part is developing her program, has already given some ideas, such as the doubling of teachers' salaries.

But, when asked about the idea of ​​giving the Prime Minister the power to dissolve the Assembly, she has already said that she was "not for a 6th Republic".

Only certainty, its program should be piloted by the mayor of Nancy Mathieu Klein and the national secretary Boris Vallaud.

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