“For the moment I am not a candidate”, answers François Hollande to a student during a meeting with high school students broadcast Sunday evening on France 3. The former head of state deplores it, “it is not going well on the left, in particular for the candidate of the Socialist Party, Anne Hidalgo bogged down with less than 5% of voting intentions in the polls. “I have the same ideas as before, I continue to defend them, and a former president can very well go back to politics and, it happened, be a candidate for the presidential election,” he slips.
However, François Hollande “does not think” that a candidacy from the left would be useful. On the contrary, he scolded last October in The Parisian the “Lilliputian candidacies” of his own camp, unable to reach the second round. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the best placed on the left, only comes in fifth position in the various opinion polls. Asked whether he could explain his position on his candidacy, François Hollande replied: “I will in any case speak soon”.
“He slaughtered his party”
On RTL this Monday, Anne Hidalgo brushed off the subject: “François Hollande, whom I see regularly, has a lot of humor and I think he showed a lot of humor in front of these second-grade students. “The mayor of Paris believes that she is” not there to comment on small sentences, even those of François Hollande. »
On the France Insoumise (LFI) side, we laugh at the idea of a “Holland savior of the left”. “Holland is the CICE, billions of euros given without consideration to companies”, tackle on CNews David Guiraud, youth spokesperson for LFI.
“Holland is the El Khomri law, that is to say the destructuring of the labor code, he adds. Hollande is the proposal for the forfeiture of nationality following the attacks. It’s not the left. There are plenty of people who are confused by the Hollande five-year term which massacred his party. »
Reference-www.leprogres.fr