While the time is at summer universities for political parties, it is also the start of the school year for François Hollande. In an interview with Ouest-France published on Saturday, the former President of the Republic believes that the Socialist Party "has the duty" to be "the central force" on the left, and must not "rally" to an environmental candidacy , nor to Jean-Luc Mélenchon for 2022.
LREM "slipped to the right"
According to François Hollande, who led the PS for eleven years, "there can be no alternative to the left without a great central force". "And the PS has a duty to play this role again". “The PS cannot remain as it is. It has a considerable space to occupy vis-a-vis La République en Marche, which has slipped to the right "and" is not a real party ", adds François Hollande. “It must take hold of ecology and link it to two dimensions: social, without which there can be no successful transition; economic because the change underway, caused by the health crisis and global warming, must lead to growth different from the past ”.
Asked about the rallying strategy defended by the current First Secretary Olivier Faure, François Hollande excludes a rally which would take place "on the disappearance of a major component of the left, the one which allowed the victories of François Mitterrand and (him -) even in the presidential election ”. For 2022, the French “are convinced of the ecological imperative but not of the responses of the Greens. Many also aspire to a profound transformation of our country, but do not share the sovereignist and anti-European positions of the rebels, ”analyzes the former president.
"I can be of help"
Asked about a new candidacy in 2022, François Hollande ensures "not to look for anything for himself". “On the other hand, I can be useful to my country, through my ideas and my experience, in the crisis it is going through today. An application presupposes conditions and not just an ambition, ”he adds, however. For the choice of the candidate, François Hollande does not plead for a primary which “always creates a division”. "It is reality which will decide and not a procedure".
According to him, for the next presidential election, "the game is open for the left if it carries a daring and credible project". Asked about the hypothesis of a new Macron-Le Pen duel in 2022, the former head of state is categorical: “all the forecasts made two years after a presidential election have never been verified. The announced favorites have never been there ”.
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