• France Emmanuel Macron faces its most turbulent January with the first major strike of the year

The French Socialist Party falls apart and the sample is the definitive chaos that it is experiencing these weeks due to the election of its general secretary.

The open internal crisis after the bump it suffered in the last presidential elections, when it barely collected 2% of the vote,

has been aggravated by the disputes between the two main candidates to lead the party

.

Specifically, the one that came in first place in the vote of the militants was Olivier Faure -who had 51% of the votes-, but the side of the loser Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of the city of Rouen and who obtained 49 % of the support of the militants, has challenged the process considering it fraudulent.

The party celebrates from this Friday its congress in Marseille, where in theory it should ratify the new leader.

However, in recent days

both politicians have not stopped making accusations against each other

, thus heating up the weekend event that should serve to lay the foundations for the future, but in which the opposite is expected.

Faced with his rival's requests to repeat the process, Faure believes that "this is not the time for a new vote, nor for endless meetings," he said in a letter addressed to party members, in which he acknowledges that the formation " He's going through tough times."

"It is my responsibility as the first re-elected secretary to try to unite the Socialist Party."

The PS, which came to govern in France just before Emmanuel Macron won the elections, is suffering an unprecedented crisis, after the defeat in April.

Then, the candidate for the Presidency,

Anne Hidalgo

, mayoress of Paris and who supports Mayer-Rossignol, collected only 1.7% of the votes, remaining at the bottom of all the candidates.

The candidate had problems even paying the expenses of the electoral campaign (the state only reimburses them if a minimum of 5% of votes is reached, which she did not achieve) and there was even talk of the disappearance of the formation.

After the electoral failure, she allied herself with the rest of the leftist parties, in the Nupes coalition (New Popular, Ecological and Social Union).

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