Personalities from the left, such as François Hollande, Anne Hidalgo and Bernard Cazeneuve, gathered at Le Creusot on Sunday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the election of François Mitterrand.

With also the idea of ​​finding a new breath for the presidential election of 2022, while in the latest polls the left does not appear in the second round.

40 years ago, May 10, 1981, the left came to power for the first time under the Fifth Republic with the election of François Mitterrand.

To celebrate this anniversary, a big meeting of the heirs, including François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve, Anne Hidalgo and Lionel Jospin, was organized on Sunday in Le Creusot.

But besides the memory, the idea was also to try to find a new breath for a left which is still looking for itself.  

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"Strength unites"

To arouse hope, the heirs of François Mitterrand have for the moment no other choice but to send a united family photo, with fellow travelers of François Mitterrand in May 1981. "The left seems to have lost the keys likely to open the door to a possible and necessary recovery. However, François Mitterrand's lessons have not lost any of their relevance. He understood that it was not unity that was strength, but the force which made the union ", launched François Hollande in his inaugural speech.

An undisguised allusion to the divisions that reign within the Socialist Party.

The proof with the absence of the first secretary of the party, Olivier Faure.

If he was invited, he preferred to go to the march for the climate on Sunday afternoon.

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Laying the groundwork for 2022

On the other hand, Anne Hidalgo, potential candidate for the left, was indeed present.

The mayor of Paris is part of the legacy of François Mitterrand, but also insisted on the importance of going beyond: "It's our job to think about the future, to invent it in complete freedom. I'm never going to be one of those politicians who try to dress someone else's costume, to pretend they're someone else. I'm not interested at all. "

A meeting to unite, commemorate, but also plan, lay the foundations for 2022, while one year before the presidential election, including the latest polls, the left does not appear in the second round.