Reims Congress

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Socialist Party (France) leadership election [1]
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  2005 27 October 2008 (2008-10-27) 2012  
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Candidate Martine Aubry Ségolène Royal
Party PS PS
Popular vote67,45167,349
Percentage50.04%49.96%

First Secretary before election

François Hollande

Elected First Secretary

Martine Aubry

The Reims Congress was the twenty-second national congress of the French Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS), taking place from 14 to 16 November 2008 in the city of Reims in the Marne.

Contents

Incumbent First Secretary François Hollande announced that he would not run again, opening the way for a three-way battle between 2007 presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal; Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris; and Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille. Each candidate endorsed motions that would be voted upon by the eligible voters as a determinant for the endorsement of each candidate.

Motions

Six motions were presented to be voted upon by members:

Results of the Motions vote

128,978 out of 233,000 eligible voters took part in the election by motion, which represents a turnout of 55.38%

Popular vote
Motion 5 (Royal)
29.08%
Motion 1 (Delanoë)
25.24%
Motion 4 (Aubry)
24.32%
Motion 3 (Hamon)
18.52%
Motion 2 (Ecologist)
1.59%
Motion 6 (Utopia)
1.25%

First-Secretary run-off

Bertrand Delanoë dropped out of the race for First Secretary during the Reims Congress and endorsed Martine Aubry the next day. Ségolène Royal stayed in the race, as did Benoît Hamon (endorsed by Utopia). Royal led in the first round of voting held on Thursday 20 November with around 42% against 34% for Aubry. Hamon had around 22% of the votes and was eliminated. He endorsed Aubry for the runoff, held the next day.

According to official results, Aubry won by a tiny margin of 42 votes, although Royal did not concede and called for a third round to be held. [2] A PS National Council examined the results on Tuesday 25 November. In the recount, Aubry was declared the winner with wider margin of 102 votes [3]

First round

Popular vote
Motion 5 (Royal)
42.13%
Motion 4 (Aubry)
34.02%
Motion 3 (Hamon)
22.85%

Second round

Popular vote
Martine Aubry
50.02
Ségolène Royal
49.98

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References

  1. French Socialist Party - First Secretary - Runoff - 2008 Election
  2. "Royal demands French vote re-run". BBC News. 22 November 2008.
  3. "French Socialists declare winner". BBC News. 25 November 2008.