Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol unearth the hatchet

A month after the difficult Marseille congress, the truce concluded between the first secretary Olivier Faure and the number two of the party Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol was shattered during the first national council, Saturday March 11, recording the division of the party between pro and anti-Nupes. In question, the vote of a resolution endorsing the support of the Socialist Party for the deputy LFI Bénédicte Taurine in the partial legislative of Ariège. The National Council recorded this support by 156 votes for and 135 against, or 21 votes apart.

But as they had promised, the first deputy secretary Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and the supporters of his current voted against this choice defended by the leader of the party Olivier Faure within the framework of the Nupes, preferring to support Martine Froger, a socialist candidate dissenting. Those close to the first secretary had let it be known that no post of national secretary would be granted to those who would choose to support this candidate, arguing that there could not be two different political lines.

Consequence: if Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who does not hide his reluctance vis-à-vis the political alliance on the left with La France insoumise, remains first secretary delegate, as decided at the congress of Marseilles, he is the only representative of his current within the national leadership. This vote ratified the division of the party between pro and anti-Nupes, a month after the Marseille congress, where Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol disputed victory for several days, with accusations of fraud. The two currents had finally reached an agreement to integrate the management together. It only lasted just over a month.