The presidential candidate and ex-socialist Arnaud Montebourg estimated Sunday that there was "
no union of the left possible
" for 2022 in view of the quarrels which cross it - except around his project.
"
I will tell you what is obvious: there is no union of the left possible when you see (the LFI candidate) Jean-Luc Mélenchon and (the socialist candidate) Anne Hidalgo who continue to fight, with François Hollande above, to settle accounts on the antepenultimate five-year term,
”he said on
BFMTV.
"
When I see them continuing to send each other names of birds, we are not up to the story,
" he insisted.
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For his part, he again stressed to the address of Anne Hidalgo that he was "
not embeddable
".
He also recalled having "
left the PS which abandoned the French and in particular the working classes, the middle classes
", victims of "
fiscal bludgeon
" and "
austerity plans
" by François Hollande, who is "
already de return by distributing good points to each other as if no lesson had been learned from these abandonments
”.
But "
everyone will have to get out of their clan and open up to others
", and if these left-wing candidates "
leave their political chapels and we come together around the 'remountada' project
, we can succeed. “, He estimated with reference to his candidacy.
"Politics is not a picnic socket"
These statements come as Anne Hidalgo, credited with 4 to 7% of the voting intentions, presented on Saturday in Lille a "reconquest project", during a first major meeting intended to give new impetus to her bogged down presidential campaign .
Asked Sunday on
France Inter
on the scenario of a withdrawal of Anne Hidalgo for the benefit of the ecologist Yannick Jadot - who had himself withdrawn in 2017 to line up behind Benoît Hamon -, the boss of the PS Olivier Faure has for his part considered that "
politics is not a picnic
."
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Sandrine Rousseau, the president of the political committee of the campaign of Yannick Jadot, she explained on franceinfo that in case of failure of Anne Hidalgo to relaunch her campaign, she "
will not tell him (t) withdraw , (she) will tell him (t) come, Anne, collaborate with us
”.
“
It is not a question of withdrawing, of domination, of humiliation of one political force vis-à-vis the other;
it is a question of cooperation and of working together,
”she explained.
