The first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure announced on Saturday to dismiss Christiane Constant, just elected first federal secretary of the PS in the Rhône, author of a message which leaked to the press, the party said.
“Following her election as first federal secretary of the Rhône of the Socialist Party on Thursday evening, Christiane Constant wrote a message containing a racist remark. 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
, ”wrote the PS in a press release.
The party leadership “immediately asked Christiane Constant to resign.
Not having received a letter of resignation from her at this time, First Secretary Olivier Faure dismissed Christiane Constant from her functions” and “suspended her from the Socialist Party”, we add from the same source.
Olivier Faure, specifies the PS,
“will propose to the National office, once installed by the National council of Saturday March 11, to seize the National commission of the conflicts to launch an internal procedure of sanction being able to go until exclusion”
.
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Internal conflicts and disagreements
According to the daily
Le Progrès
and the monthly
LyonMag
, Christiane Constant, after her election as the first federal minister of the Rhône, wrote in a telephone message: “we have eliminated all these macaques”.
Madame Constant defended the line of Olivier Faure.
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.
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“These insulting comments 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.
The PS remains shaken by internal conflicts and disagreements a month after its congress in Marseilles, which resulted, after several weeks of invectives and accusations of fraud, in a compromise with the reappointment as first secretary of Olivier Faure, at the within a collective governance in which his main opponent, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, became first deputy secretary.
