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First Secretary of the Socialist Party
Premier secrétaire du Parti socialiste
Incumbent Olivier Faure since 7 April 2018
Inaugural holder	Alain Savary
Formation	17 July 1969; 55 years ago (1969-07-17)
Website	www.parti-socialiste.fr/le_1er_secr_taire

The First Secretary of the Socialist Party (French: Premier secrétaire du Parti socialiste) is the most senior politician within the Socialist Party in France. The office has been held by Olivier Faure since 7 April 2018.

List of officeholders


Name			Years		Notes
1st	Alain Savary		17 July 1969	16 June 1971
2nd	François Mitterrand		16 June 1971	24 January 1981	Elected President of France in the 1981 election.
3rd	Lionel Jospin		24 January 1981	14 May 1988	First term as First Secretary.
4th	Pierre Mauroy		14 May 1988	9 January 1992	Mauroy was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984.
5th	Laurent Fabius		9 January 1992	3 April 1993	The party leadership collectively resigned on 3 April 1993, following the Socialist defeat in the 1993 legislative election. Fabius was also Prime Minister of France from 1984 to 1986.
6th	Michel Rocard		24 October 1993	19 June 1994	Rocard was Prime Minister of France from 1988 to 1991.
7th	Henri Emmanuelli		19 June 1994	14 October 1995
8th	Lionel Jospin		14 October 1995	27 November 1997	Second term, interrupted by his appointment as Prime Minister of France.
9th	François Hollande		27 November 1997	26 November 2008	Longest-serving First Secretary. Elected President of France in the 2012 presidential election.
10th	Martine Aubry		26 November 2008	12 September 2012	First woman to hold the office.
11th	Harlem Désir		12 September 2012	15 April 2014
12th	Jean-Christophe Cambadélis		15 April 2014	30 September 2017	Resigned in the wake of the party's defeat in the 2017 legislative election.
–	Rachid Temal		30 September 2017	7 April 2018	Served an interim tenure.
13th	Olivier Faure		7 April 2018	Incumbent	Elected by acclamation on 29 March 2018, following the withdrawal of Stéphane Le Foll.

Notes

Harlem Désir temporarily assumed the leadership of Socialist Party from 30 June to 16 October 2011, during Martine Aubry's candidacy for the presidential primaries.

v t e French Socialist Party
First Secretaries	Alain Savary (1969–1971) François Mitterrand (1971–1981) Lionel Jospin (1981–1988) Pierre Mauroy (1988–1992) Laurent Fabius (1992–1993) Michel Rocard (1993–1994) Henri Emmanuelli (1994–1995) Lionel Jospin (1995–1997) François Hollande (1997–2008) Martine Aubry (2008–2012) Harlem Désir (2012–2014) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis (2014–2017) Rachid Temal (ad interim) Olivier Faure (2018–present)
Prime Ministers	Pierre Mauroy (1981–1984) Laurent Fabius (1984–1986) Michel Rocard (1988–1991) Édith Cresson (1991–1992) Pierre Bérégovoy (1992–1993) Lionel Jospin (1997–2002) Jean-Marc Ayrault (2012–2014) Manuel Valls (2014–2016) Bernard Cazeneuve (2016–2017)
Presidential candidates	François Mitterrand (1974, 1981, 1988) Lionel Jospin (1995, 2002) Ségolène Royal (2007) François Hollande (2012) Benoît Hamon (2017) Anne Hidalgo (2022)
Presidential primaries	1995 2006 2011 2017 2021 [fr; es]
Related articles	French Section of the Workers' International Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance Convention of Republican Institutions Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs Le Populaire
National congresses	Alfortville Congress (May 1969) Issy-les-Moulineaux Congress (July 1969) Epinay Congress (1971) Grenoble Congress (1973) Pau Congress (1975) Nantes Congress (1977) Metz Congress (1979) Créteil Congress (January 1981) Valence Congress (October 1981) Bourg-en-Bresse Congress (1983) Toulouse Congress (1985) Lille Congress (1987) Rennes Congress (1990) Grande Arche Congress (1991) Bordeaux Congress (1992) Bourget Congress (1993) Liévin Congress (1994) Brest Congress (1997) Second Grenoble Congress (2000) Dijon Congress (2003) Le Mans Congress (2005) Reims Congress (2008) Second Toulouse Congress (2012) Poitiers Congress [fr] (2015) Aubervilliers Congress (2018) Villeurbanne Congress [fr] (2021) Marseille Congress [fr] (2023)
Parliamentary groups	National Assembly: Socialist group, associated Senate: Socialist and Republican
Former factions	Aubryists Desires for the Future Socialist Left