The PS launches a procedure to exclude dissident candidates from the legislative elections

Sweeping the Socialist Party.

The management of the PS confirmed this Wednesday to the Parisian to have decided to suspend 57 socialist candidates and 22 substitutes who had refused to join the Nupes during the legislative elections, during a rally in the National Office.

We find in the list the four dissident candidates from Sarthe, supported by the former Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll, the four dissidents from Hérault or Laurent Panifous, supported by the PS president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga in Ariège, according to L'Express.

There is also Frédéric Cuvillier, the former Transport Minister of François Hollande, substitute candidate for Mireille Hingrez-Cereda in the 5th constituency of Pas-de-Calais.

Exclusions on a case-by-case basis?

An exclusion procedure is launched and entrusted to the National Conflicts Commission (CNC) which will work on a case-by-case basis.

At the end of May, Olivier Faure had announced the color at the microphone of France inter, by affirming that the members of the party who would appear in the legislative elections against a candidate from Nupes "would no longer belong to the Socialist Party".

💬 The statutory rules are clear.

When you are a dissident, when you are a candidate against candidates presented or supported by the @partisocialiste, you are automatically deemed to no longer belong to the Socialist Party.#le79inter pic.twitter.com/9kiuqFK9TJ

— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) May 23, 2022

But that's not all, the leadership of the rose party also wants to organize a debate at a future national office to talk about the case of Party officials who have shown strong support for dissident candidates.

This is particularly the case of François Hollande, his ex-prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Carole Delga or even Stéphane Le Foll.

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The socialist mayor of Le Mans had also called at the end of June to “create a new federation of the left” and already distanced himself from the socialists.

Olivier Faure also intends to launch an internal commission of inquiry to verify whether the money from the party and its federations has financed the campaigns of dissidents.