He was still in Strasbourg this Thursday, in Arras last Saturday… and the tour continues.
François Hollande continues to travel across France for the signing sessions of his latest book “Affronter” (Stock).
It also seems to be increasing in the media.
If many suspected the former head of state of preparing to embody a possible recourse in the event of the fall of Anne Hidalgo in the race for the Elysee, Holland has above all an obsession now: to rehabilitate the balance sheet of his five-year term.
A rehabilitation deemed all the more necessary as never a President of the Republic had been so criticized by his own troops, during and after his mandate. The rebels, the scandals of Arnaud Montebourg before he was thanked from the government, the resignation of Christiane Taubira… And the word “betrayals” used in January 2019 by Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, concerning the deprivation of nationality desired by François Hollande and the “Labor. "That his own family castigates him in this way went very badly," recalls Paul Roche, president of the Socialist Federation of Corrèze.
"François Hollande is fighting for a reading that puts into perspective the critical look we have on him," confirms Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, former number one of the PS.
He seeks to explain that the reasons which prevented him from representing himself are not due to his record but to the betrayal of Emmanuel Macron and to the destabilizing criticisms of the rebels.
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140 cities visited since 2017
From dedications to meetings with young people and high schools, François Hollande has visited more than 140 cities since the end of his mandate.
"The French he meets are grateful to him for marriage for all or early retirement for long careers or difficult jobs," likes to emphasize one of his relatives.
Virulently questioned by Eric Zemmour according to whom, during the attacks of 2015, "the authorities were aware of the danger and he preferred that the French die rather than prevent migrants from coming to France", François Hollande n 'did not wait to retort to the polemicist "quasi" candidate for 2022. "The terrorists of November 13 came from Belgium, they are Belgians or French", he hammered on Radio J, recalling the measures taken to "control arrivals from outside the European Union. Faced with the current tragedy of the refugees from Grande-Synthe, François Hollande defends, on France Inter, the organized dismantling of the Calais Jungle in 2016.
But it is especially in his camp that the former head of state wants to regain esteem. “The day of November 6 spent in her stronghold in Correze with Anne Hidalgo had a double interest, decrypts Cambadélis. For Anne Hidalgo, it was about attracting the socio-democratic electorate. For François Hollande, it was a way of reintroducing himself into his socialist family which had almost excluded him. A reconquest which seems to bear some fruit. He is now, according to the latest list of Ipsos for Le Point, the third personality most appreciated by supporters of the PS (behind Martine Aubry and Jack Lang). In addition, Anne Hidalgo's team does not hesitate to cite as an example measures taken during her five-year term, such as the "youth guarantee" or the strengthening of the police force.A modest consolation for François Hollande who says it and repeats it: "The important thing is the mark we leave in History ..."
