Socialist Party Congress: Boris Vallaud will give his vote to Olivier Faure
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Boris Vallaud, who came in third in the first round of the Socialist Party congress, will personally vote for Olivier Faure, the outgoing First Secretary, in the second round on Thursday, he announced in an interview with Le Monde on Sunday. "My choice is not a directive," warns the leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly, who says he is "too attached to the freedom of activists."
The Landes MP, who spoke with Olivier Faure, who came in first (42.21%), and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Rouen, who came second (40.38%), justifies his choice by believing that "the one who came in first has the legitimacy and above all the responsibility to unite." He specifies that he "also shares the outgoing First Secretary's line of unity of the left . "
But his vote for Olivier Faure will be "neither a blank check nor a magic slate," insists the man who caused a surprise by obtaining 17.41% of the vote behind his two rivals. "If elected, Mr. Faure will have to respond to the activists' desire for change, their willingness to get to work on ideas, their desire to be better taken into consideration in the party's strategic choices, their wish for broad and united governance, respecting and listening to all sensitivities." The Landes MP says he has obtained "firm commitments from Olivier" Faure, on his demands and promises to be "vigilant to their effective implementation."
Vallaud entered the congress battle as a candidate for "reconciliation" for the party, fractured since the previous fratricidal congress in Marseille in 2023, and with the goal of getting the Socialist Party back to work. He notably put forward the idea of "decommodifying" society, initiated a "Léon Blum Academy," a place for training and the production of ideas, and launched an internal media outlet, the Nouveau Populaire.
Congratulating himself on having "shaken up" the logic of "bloc against bloc," Boris Vallaud believes he has "parliamentarized the PS because no one has an absolute majority in the national council [the party's parliament] and the national office [the executive]." For him, whoever is elected will therefore have to "show absolute modesty," and even if Olivier Faure wins, "the PS will not be built without Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol [and] Carole Delga," the president of Occitanie.
Libération
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