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Two major speeches this week, a long article in the review Le Débat, a book to be published in October ... Bernard Cazeneuve, the last Prime Minister of François Hollande, goes back on stage in this season, with the will to propose a path of "transformation" reconciling social democracy and ecology.

Twenty-seven months after his departure from Matignon, he will be the guest star of the parliamentary days of the PS in Avignon that take place until Friday. He will address Thursday afternoon to the deputies and senators, before the press.

Francois Hollande, who had spoken in July before the Socialist parliamentarians, is this time again their guest. But he should at most say a few friendly words during a "pot" in camera on Thursday night.

On Sunday, Mr. Cazeneuve will speak to about a thousand people at the Rose of Maraussan (Hérault).

Mr. Cazeneuve, whose promise of "return" wavers for some months the socialist ranks, should speak on current issues -retirement, unemployment insurance- but also more widely on "what should be social democracy tomorrow ":" It is a question of articulating the social-democratic thought, the stake of the energetic and ecological transition, and the question of the republican thought, "he explains to AFP.

"If we are socialist, we must deal with environmental issues (...) We are concerned about trying to create conditions for an ecological transition that reduces inequalities," says the former Minister of the Interior .

A thirty-page article in the next issue of Le Debate should allow the former Manche de la Manche to develop more fully these themes, which have become the heart of the news, and about which he knows waited at the turn.

One of the founders of Place public, Claire Nouvian, describes in Le Figaro on Tuesday Mr. Cazeneuve as "a figure of the past, that of the most productive social democracy". "His participation in the Hollande government is crippling and, at least, ecologists have not forgotten Rémi Fraisse's death in Sivens", she torpedoes.

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The former first secretary of the interim PS Rachid Temal blasted Twitter on "dirty". "It is a man of state and left," he replied, recalling that Bernard Cazeneuve supported in May the public PS-Place list led by Raphael Glucksmann to the European.

Like Mr. Temal, a large part of the socialist elephants seem willing to line up behind Mr. Cazeneuve, first and foremost the Presidents of PS groups in the Assembly and Senate, Valérie Rabault and Patrick Kanner.

Tuesday in Châlons-en-Champagne, François Hollande has entrusted his "esteem" for Bernard Cazeneuve. "I hope his word can be heard," he told reporters.

The former president "is satisfied that Bernard Cazeneuve (...) reinvest in political life and come in support of the left," has decrypted his entourage.

A witness passage between the two men? After the publication in late August in Le Monde of a series of damning articles for the former President of the Republic, the conditions for a "return" of François Hollande appear less than ever met.

Mr. Cazeneuve, he refines his stature of "statesman", released relatively unscathed from the test of five years. He will publish in the fall a book of memories about his experience in Beauvau. Before, probably in 2021, a second volume that "will go beyond the story to draw lessons".

As for 2022, it is too early to talk about it, even if Mr. Cazeneuve is "very inclined" to create "the conditions by a reflection of substance, of a rally of the widest left possible", and "very inclined to support the candidate who will be in a position to win ". "My wish is that he be socialist," he adds.

Saying he does not "fit in a perspective for 2022 for himself", Mr. Cazeneuve said that "if there is no solution", he "take (a) (s) responsibilities". "I'm not Jacques Delors," he slips, referring to the one who had finally declined the socialist candidacy in 1995.

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