Despite the agreement signed between the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure and his rival Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol to turn the page on a particularly violent congress, the functioning of the party remains marked by personal and political disagreements between the two men.
The behavior of the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, now first deputy secretary, annoys internally. Far from silencing him, the agreement seems to have reinvigorated him. No question for Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol to stay in Rouen, as some hoped. On radio or TV sets, in demonstrations, he continues his quest for notoriety and even publishes a column in The world (article reserved for subscribers) to criticize the absence of a socialist counter-project on pensions.
The one who is now part of the management “keep actingaccording to a frame, as an opponent of Faure”. Dieynaba Diop, spokesperson for the party, shares this annoyance and says to herself “quite amazed at the way he plays his personal part while the congress is over. I’m waitingshe says, that this agreement is respected. We cannot continue to have press releases that suggest that they are not on the same line as that of our first secretary.
Contacted by franceinfo, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol describes himself as “an active first deputy secretary”. “We need freshness”, supports this close friend of Laurent Fabius. His running mate Lamia El Aaraje adds: “We are today at the head of a current, a movement which weighs a third of the PS and which has the vocation of expressing itself.”
“When Nicolas expresses in a forum the position that we think should be that of the socialists in the context of the pension reform, he is entirely in his place. And we will continue to do so.”
Lamia El Aarajeat franceinfo
“This boy is not manageabletackles a close friend of Olivier Faure. He will wantaccording to him, play a presidential destiny.” But according to another, this “enemy within” se”will burn the wings” and will end”vslike a moth.”
“Whistling the end of recess”
According to the entourage of the mayor of Rouen, the two men “have no relation”they who nevertheless form with the mayor of Nantes Johanna Roland a “collegial direction”. “We offer frameworks for discussion, meetings, but we have no return”we are told, with even text messages sent by Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol to Olivier Faure which would remain unanswered…
For one of his opponents, the boss of the PS practices “the strategy of decay”. On Olivier Faure’s side, we want “whistle the end of recess”. There is even talk of entrusting perilous missions to the cumbersome deputy first secretary. The boss of the party intends, according to a socialist executive at franceinfo, to summon Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol to ask him to fall into line.
On the horizon, a partial legislative election in Ariège, at the end of March, which risks making things worse: NMR, as it is nicknamed, intends to support a dissident candidate against that of Nupes, and therefore against the advice of its management. .