White smoke in sight at the 80th Congress of the Socialist Party, which will be held until tomorrow in Marseille. While tensions had been high for two weeks over the outcome of the vote to appoint the first secretary of the PS, the negotiations carried out since last night at the Palais du Pharo appear to be on the verge of success. While around 10.00 the mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland (supporter of Faure) estimated that “80% of the way” had been done “we are ready for a deal”declared at 11:30 Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who challenged Olivier Faure’s victory.
“Our responsibility is to make the left wing win against the right and extreme right. We have no opponent on the left wing, we are competitors. We are ready for an agreement because it is in the interests of the Socialist Party and the Socialist Party superiors. the whole left. The challenge is to know if we want to work together again, because the party was dying from its divisions and it is a question of responsibility. We are ready for an agreement that puts Refondations (the movement of Mayer-Rossignol, Ed.) at the heart of the Socialist Party and makes it possible to find colors in the PS.” The mayor of Rouen added: “We hope that this proposal will be heard by Olivier Faure and his friends. It is not a matter of ego or place. Refondations will be represented as 1st Deputy Secretary, this is the proposal we have made from the start.”
And to conclude, in the direction of those who predicted a breach of PS, “Perhaps you expected a chieftain battle congress. We prefer chieftains together in battle”.
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