The former Prime Minister and former Minister of the Interior was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday October 23, 2023.
Bernard Cazeneuve, former Prime Minister and former Minister of the Interior, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday October 23, 2023. Trip of the President of the National Assembly to Israel, future of Nupes… He responded to questions from Jérôme Chapuis and Salhia Brakhlia.
Bernard Cazeneuve criticizes the trip of the President of the Assembly to Israel
Asked to react to the trip of the President of the National Assembly with a delegation to Israel, Bernard Cazeneuve declared: “I think that on the eve or two days before the visit of the President of the Republic, it would have been preferable for the voice of France to be expressed only through the voice of the President of the Republic”. “The voice of the President of the Republic is the only French voice that we are in a position to hear on a serious subject in a difficult international context,” specifies the former Prime Minister.
“I understand very well that the President of the National Assembly is traveling with a delegation. But when we are in a context as difficult as the one we are experiencing, as troubled, with such serious international tensions, the voice of the France speaks only through the President of the Republic”adds Bernard Cazeneuve.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon “seems to have lost all common sense”
“I think that these comments are, as often, I was almost going to say, as always when they come from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, outrageous, irresponsible and likely to create the greatest tensions”declares Bernard Cazeneuve, to qualify the content of the tweet from Jean-Luc Mélenchon against the trip of the President of the National Assembly to Tel Aviv this weekend. The former Prime Minister adds that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is “a character who seems to have lost all common sense. But I no longer want to comment on the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (…), a character who seems to have lost all common sense”.
La France insoumise does not belong to “the great history of the French left”
According to Bernard Cazeneuve, the Socialist Party must “cut ties” with the party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Former Prime Minister denounces “process of profound debasement of the left”, since the Socialist Party, the Ecologist Pole, La France insoumise (LFI) and the Communist Party signed an electoral agreement during the 2022 legislative elections to form Nupes. He claims to have had “reason” to have been part of those who considered that LFI “did not belong to the great history of the French left and that he was the manifestation of extremism”.
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