François Hollande is working on a new political force for the 2022 presidential elections. -

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François Hollande wants a candidacy on the left who is capable of winning the presidential election in 2022. "What I can do as a former president with the experience of mine is to work on the construction of a new political force", the former president said in an interview with Le Parisien published on Friday.

"Without it, the government left will not have a candidate capable of winning the presidential election", because today, adds the former head of the socialist state, "nobody is expected, nobody is expected. is hoped for ”.

"I am not in the obsession or the revenge and even less in the grudge", he continues.

"I especially want that in 2022, it will be possible to restore French democracy".

An allowance for those under 25

He criticizes the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who announced his candidacy for 2022: "his personality is not unifying and his political line is not in the majority, on the left as in the country, and never will be ”.

Worried about the economic and social consequences of the health crisis, François Hollande asks in particular to "grant those under 25 a specific allowance for a fixed period" in order to prevent young people from being "the sacrificed generation".

And, to finance the crisis measures, "new revenue will be necessary", he warns.

"The vertiginous widening of the debt announces without saying it an austerity plan in 2022".

He calls on Macron to "share" his power

Asked about his relationship with his successor, the former head of state calls on France Inter to further “share” his power in the face of “an accumulation of crises”.

Emmanuel Macron "cannot do it alone", he said.

"Deciding alone in a narrow circle, without involving all the living forces (...), that seems to me to be an approach which cannot today produce unity and consensus", estimates François Hollande.

The current head of state "must dialogue" because, believes the former president, if "we want there to be an acceptance, the decision must be shared".

“If the anger rises, if the discontent sets in (…), then we will have social movements”, he worries.

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