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Arnaud Montebourg puts his candidacy for 2022 on hold

2021-04-18T18:58:01.916Z


The former Minister of the Economy has decided to step back and should not speak before the fall. "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 Januar


"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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Source: lefigaro

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