“
I have until May 20.
Invited on France Inter, François Hollande does not yet intend to decide on his candidacy for the legislative elections.
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The former president was nevertheless annoyed to note that his former constituency was "
reserved
" for a candidate from La France insoumise.
This, within the framework of the recent agreement between the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Socialists.
"
I thought it was a form of elegance and courtesy
," he quipped.
I was a member of that riding for 24 years.
(...) I think that there are forms of absence of friendship in the Socialist Party which seem harmful to me.
»
The former head of state again “
challenged
” the agreement of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes).
If the union, he continued, is "
desirable
", it must "
be electorally balanced and programmatically credible
".
However, specified François Hollande, “
it is not
”.
The agreement provides that the training led by Olivier Faure can present their candidates in 70 constituencies.
“
It's a fault
” and “
an imbalance
”, regretted François Hollande: “
Many socialist candidates would have been in better conditions to be elected as deputies than candidates from La France insoumise.
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