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Presidential 2022: Montebourg calls for "the unification of forces around a project and a common candidate"

2021-12-08T07:53:36.053Z


In an interview with Liberation, the candidate notes that his candidacy does not take off and warns against the "disappearance" of the left.


This is last-ditch work with you.

"In an interview with

Liberation

and published on Wednesday, Arnaud Montebourg throws a bottle into the sea. Aware that his candidacy does not take off and that he has not"

succeeded

"in making the

desired

"

synthesis

", the candidate calls to "

the unification of forces around a project and a common candidate

".

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The past few weeks have not been the best of his campaign.

On November 7, Arnaud Montebourg, guest of the RTL-

Le Figaro

-LCI

Grand Jury

, broke his entourage.

By proposing to block private money transfers, via Western Union, to countries which "

refuse to take back

" their illegal immigrants, the former minister drew the wrath of the left and congratulations ... Éric Zemmour.

Various tensions ensued within his team, starting with part of the Youth for Montebourg who dissociated themselves from his candidacy.

Since then, the contender, already struggling in the polls, skates a little more.

A recent Ifop-Fiducial study carried out for

Le Figaro

places it at 1 or 2%, against 3 to 4% recently.

"

Since September 4

(date of his declaration of candidacy, editor's note)

, let's be honest, nothing has changed,

" he says to

Liberation

.

"Left-wing voters withdraw"

However, Arnaud Montebourg does not spare his opponents.

If he dives into opinion polls, it is also the case, according to him, of the whole left.

"

Anne Hidalgo, who was the highest, drops every time she speaks,

" he laughs.

As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he "

no longer manages to take off

".

"

No candidate can create the dynamic to the detriment of the others because the people of the left do not want to choose

", concludes the candidate, who deplores that "

the voters of the left are withdrawing from the presidential election

" while "

the right and the far right form one body

”.

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His judgment of the state of the left is just as harsh. According to him, this has "

dropped

" the "

value of work and its fair remuneration

", the "

reasonable return of national sovereignty

", "

reindustrialisation and

"

made in France

"" as well as "

republican firmness

". So many “

abandonments

” that risk leading to “

the death and disappearance of the left

”.

A solution therefore seems inevitable: "to

find a unified force to weigh on the dangerous events which are brewing

".

Mentioned for several months, the union of the left does not find, for the time being, a candidate.

But less than five months before the presidential election, Arnaud Montebourg wants to make yet another attempt.

He who has long emphasized the "

singularity

" of his project even seems ready to line up behind a common figure.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon removed from the union

"

Everyone must make their contribution to this chance that the country must not miss

", he believes, without failing to specify that his project "

must be defended

". “

Faced with this peril, it is time to wake up and act. (...) Be careful, we are and will all be responsible for this situation if it does not change

, ”he warns. Before adding that the Communist candidate, Fabien Roussel, is "

the least distant from (him) politically

".

Beyond the union, it is also a question of "

facing the reality of the problems and not leaving certain subjects like the question of immigration aside

", whereas "

the project of Zemmour carries a frightening vision of ethnic cleansing

”.

It is also up to the left to "

reconnect with the national story

".

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The path to unity that Arnaud Montebourg wants to take seems perilous, however.

He himself is already putting an obstacle there by excluding Jean-Luc Mélenchon, too far removed by his “

radicalism

”, his “

communitarianism

” and “

his vision of the Republic

”.

Invited on France 2 this Wednesday, the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo did not respond positively to this call either.

What is needed is to be able to carry our vision.

Me, my vision, it is very clear (...).

You know very well that today a union which would be perceived as artificial, because there are candidates who have been declared for a very long time, would not work

”, she swept away.

Source: lefigaro

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