“François Hollande, who has never mourned the Elysée, intends to play his full part in the coming recomposition of the left” | EUROtoday

VSis a photograph {that a} buddy of François Hollande has simply acquired on his cell phone: the electoral poster of Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the Socialist Party (PS) record for the European elections of June 9, has been lined with leaflets asserting the assembly by which the previous President of the Republic is to take part, Thursday June 6 in Limoges, on the invitation of the socialist federation of Haute-Vienne. Behind one candidate, one other?

Seven years after giving up on operating, in 2017, François Hollande, who has by no means mourned the lack of the Elysée, allowed hypothesis to flourish a couple of doable return. This shouldn’t be the primary time (he had toyed with the concept of ​​being a candidate in 2022), and it’s undoubtedly not the final. But this time, the little music performed mezzo vocce rue de Rivoli, the place he settled after the Elysée, sounds completely different, because the post-Macron period prepares, with an excessive proper on the gates of energy.

At virtually 70 years outdated, the previous President of the Republic enjoys an simple newfound reputation. In the persona dashboard Paris Match-Sud Radio-IFOP-Fiducial of March, he’s the second favourite political determine of the French, behind Edouard Philippe (he fell to five^e place in May), and he’s acquired like a rock star on the bottom the place he multiplies, significantly in universities – he has made sixty-five journeys for the reason that begin of the yr.

For this mocked, vilified man, who skilled depths of unpopularity when he was on the Elysée, that is undoubtedly a primary revenge. Just because the evolution of sure points proves him proper a posteriori: his refusal to ship the Mistral warships to Putin, in 2015, was legitimized by the conflict in Ukraine; simply because the dizzying slide in public funds over the previous seven years has made the one who diminished the general public deficit to 2.6% of GDP appear to be a very good supervisor…

The third salvo is coming: even when the previous President of the Republic has nothing to do with it, the introduced rating of Raphaël Glucksmann, who might arrive first on the left on June 9, would reinforce his anti-Nupes line and the concept that social democracy, untainted by radicalism, nonetheless has a future in France.

“The weight of experience”

With this triple revenge, François Hollande intends to take part within the coming recomposition: “I have to do my part”, he stated on April 4 on France Inter. He will communicate the day after the election to harshly describe a blocked political scenario. He criticizes Macron, whom he sees as a head of state with out previous or imaginative and prescient, locked within the administration of the current, of getting arrange a lethal tête-à-tête with the acute proper, from which the latter advantages. He may even plead for the PS to reaffirm its identification as a authorities social gathering, removed from the sound and fury of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and put together for 2027 bearing in mind this primary place discovered on the left.

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