(ANSA) - PARIS, JAN 20 - A narrow victory for Olivier Faure, accusations of irregularities by the defeated adversary, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the election of the secretary of the French Socialist Party ends in chaos.
The crisis is now open in the party, which has collapsed in the preferences of the French in recent years and has lost the leadership of the left to the benefit of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise.
This morning a statement from the management proclaimed the victory of the outgoing secretary, Faure, with 50.83% (12,076 votes), just 393 preferences more than the challenger, the mayor of Rouen, Mayer-Rossignol (49.17%, 11,683 votes). .
The latter immediately challenged Faure's victory by claiming the majority of votes in a video conference press alongside the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.
Mayer-Rossignol disputes a thousand votes and promises to "go all the way and exploit all the possibilities" to assert his rights, up to the ordinary court.
The most probable solution appears a new vote count.
Meanwhile, the party appears split in two, between supporters of one candidate and the other: "what is happening is serious,
(HANDLE).