Anne Hidalgo delves into her memories.
Lionel Jospin was Prime Minister at the time and she worked in Martine Aubry's office.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, once a socialist, is minister of vocational education.
"You are the only one in the PS who, when she mentions the working class, knows what she is talking about".
Anne Hidalgo drinks whey!
Except that twenty years later, Jean-Luc Mélenchon would prefer to die a thousand times rather than to line up behind a socialist.
Asked, he did not answer us: does he only want to remember this diploma in the working class? ... We can not find, logically, a single politician to believe in a union of the left from the first round .
The ecologists are preparing their primary on their side and the Communists leave the door open to an independent candidacy.
It is the drama of the French left, its curse.
It is prevented by itself.
Yet the left electorate exists!
These men and women did not disappear as if by magic in 2017!
They are there, worried to see, once again, the number of potential candidates on the starting line.
How to move from dispersal to gathering asks the “people of the left”.
Anti-macronism is not enough to avoid scattering.
If the left is to come together, this time it will not be “against” but “for” something.
Ecology, social justice, Europe, regulation of globalization in a post-Covid world, question of debt… So many themes on which there are today 50 shades of lefts.
Whoever wants to play the match in 2022 has the challenge of going from monochrome to solid color.