Olivier Faure dismisses a leader of the Rhône federation for a “racist remark”

The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) Olivier Faure announced on Saturday March 4 to dismiss Christiane Constant, just elected first federal secretary of the PS in the Rhône, and author of a message “contains a racial slur” which leaked to the press, the party said in a statement. “The anti-racist fight is at the foundation of the identity of the Socialist Party, which condemns in the strongest terms these unacceptable and criminally reprehensible remarks”writes the PS.

The party leadership “immediately asked Christiane Constant for her resignation. Not having received a letter of resignation from her at this time, First Secretary Olivier Faure dismissed Christiane Constant from her duties” And “the suspension of the Socialist Party”is it written in this press release.

Olivier Faure, specifies the PS, “will propose to the National Office, once installed by the National Council on Saturday March 11, to seize the National Conflicts Commission to launch an internal sanction procedure which can go as far as exclusion”.

“Insulting” and “intolerable” remarks

According to the daily Progress and LyonMag, Christiane Constant, after her election as first federal of the Rhône, Thursday evening, wrote in a telephone message: “We eliminated all these macaques.” Christiane Constant was defending Olivier Faure’s line. The department is also that of the opponent of the first secretary, Hélène Geoffroy, mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, originally from Guadeloupe and opposed to the electoral agreement concluded between the PS and the other left-wing forces including La France insoumise.

“These insulting remarks with a racist connotation are intolerable. I address my deep regrets and my full solidarity to the comrades of the Socialist Party targeted in this message”for his part reacted Cédric Van Styvendael, mayor of Villeurbanne.