"I'm going to
smash everything."
These were the words of Arnaud Montebourg last winter, as reported by several of his visitors, at the time half-enthusiastic, half-intrigued, by the presidential desires of the former Minister of the Economy. Even in public, the former socialist advanced his pawns, until he created his own political association, L'Engagement. In an interview with
Le
Point
on January 9, he also considered
"obvious"
that the question of his candidacy arose. According to him, the health crisis had confirmed all his theses on the need to have a more sovereign France economically, less dependent on globalization. Arnaud Montebourg specified however that he could not yet say anything,
"at this stage"
, on a possible candidacy, but that he
"would do so within a few months".
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From Montebourg to Mélenchon, sovereignty moves on the left
A few months have passed, and the former minister has disappeared from the radar.
The reason is above all medical: Arnaud Montebourg caught a
"rifle Covid"
in February
which
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