François Hollande, former President of the Republic, was Thursday April 28 the guest of 8:30 franceinfo. He answered questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
Legislative: for François Hollande, “the unacceptable agreement” between the PS and LFI is destined to fail
“Discussing is necessary, disappearing is impossible”launched François Hollande. “The electoral agreement, if I have followed correctly, is to say: we start from the results of the presidential election and there will be single candidacies from the Popular Union”the banner behind which La France insoumise proposes to the forces of the left to gather, he added. “Never, in the history of the left, have we had this type of behavior, including when the Socialist Party was doing 25% or 30% and its supposed or real allies were doing 5% or 6%”he recalled.
This agreement is also “unacceptable” on the plan “programmatic”, according to François Hollande. “It is a questioning of the very history of socialism: of François Mitterrand and his European commitments, of Lionel Jospin and his economic credibility and social progress, and of what I was also able to do in my five-year term.he insisted. For all these reasons, the former head of state “excludes” to run for the legislative elections under the colors of the People’s Union. However, he did not close the door to an application, especially in Corrèze, under another label.
François Hollande points to the “lack of embodiment” of the PS, barely veiled criticism of Olivier Faure
For Francois Hollandethe current leadership of Socialist Party has a heavy responsibility in the failure of his candidate, Anne Hidalgoin the last presidential election. “For five years, a job should have been done by the party.”
“Then there was a lack of incarnation”, according to him, becausea political party, or a candidacy, it is an incarnation”. Without naming him, he criticized the current first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure. “A leader comes first to the voters”, he observed. Gold, “there were European elections, regional elections”, in which the member for Seine-et-Marne did not play a leading role.
“I necessarily have a share of responsibilityadmitted the former head of state. I did not represent myself [en 2017]I think there are bound to be consequences..