Lionel Jospin in September 2019. -
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He is back.
Well almost.
In an interview with L'Obs published on Wednesday, former PS Prime Minister Lionel Jospin invites “the environmental left” to come together to “perhaps” win the 2022 presidential election against Emmanuel Macron.
"The united environmental left has the potential to be present in the second round and perhaps win," asserts Lionel Jospin, but "the movements, parties and leaders who drive it must show a great capacity for disinterestedness and sense of the general interest.
Because none of them will be able to win by isolating themselves ”.
Emmanuel Macron's “chimera” of the “new world”
The former head of government, who had left politics on the evening of his defeat in the first round of the presidential election on April 21, 2002, has not been a member of the Constitutional Council since 2019 and is therefore no longer subject to the duty of reserve .
He is preparing to publish a book, “Un temps troublé” (Seuil), devoted to the political period opened in 2017 ”.
"I'm trying to analyze why the system has weakened and how a man then little known to the French (Emmanuel Macron) was able to get elected by promising the advent of a" new world ".
But this “chimera of a new world has vanished.
A stable political landscape that meets the expectations of the French has not succeeded the one that has come undone ”.
If he admits to Emmanuel Macron to be "energetic and talented, having a sense of the opportune moment, the kairos, as the ancient Greeks said", he also believes that he "may have deceived himself on his strength genuine ”.
"It interests me, intrigues me and worries me," he says.
"The incantation will not be enough"
“The president's software is anachronistic to me.
Until now, he has led an unbalanced economic and social policy "," his political method, that of verticality, is also from another age "and he" accentuated the presidential slope of our political system ".
"If President Macron is a candidate for re-election, the prognosis is rather that he wins", he adds, while accusing the Head of State of "establishing the National Rally as a partner adversary" .
For Lionel Jospin, "the socialist message remains adapted to the time", but the PS "must regain its luster.
To unite the French, a social and ecological left must be built and be daring and realistic.
The incantation will not be enough, ”he says.
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