"The problem of the Socialist Party is that it has decided since 2017 to fade away and from this point of view, it has succeeded beyond all understanding", mocked France Inter the former leader of State.
Mr. Holland has "not made a decision" regarding a candidacy for the legislative elections.
"I have until May 20," he said, "anxious not to add confusion to the confusion."
But he regretted that his former constituency in Corrèze had been reserved for a candidate from La France insoumise under the recent agreement between LFI and the PS.
After the agreement creating the Nupes, is the PS dead?
"The socialist idea, it is there, the party as it is, it is all the same now worn out, tired and above all it is divided", he replied, repeating his opposition to an alliance with LFI which "will not allow victory".
The former first secretary of the PS said he was in favor of the union of the left, but considered that "for it to be victorious, it must be concerned with both truth and credibility".
According to him, "the role of a reformist left is to restore a serious prospect of gaining power" and "in the aftermath of the legislative elections, there will have to be a great movement which is constituted from those who want it, from the Socialist Party and outside, because the greatest number of Socialists, today they are outside".
We must "rebuild, as was done in the early 1970s with François Mitterrand (...), as Lionel Jospin also did, this great socialist force which we absolutely need, which exists everywhere in all the democracies in Europe", he insisted.
"My life is linked to socialism, not to the Socialist Party, I will be so until the end of my existence, at least politically", added the former president who does not however intend to return his PS card: "It would still be a shame for the party to leave me."
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