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Legislative 2022: François Hollande announces that he will not ultimately be a candidate

2022-05-20T13:51:46.383Z


The former socialist president did not close the door to a candidacy in his former constituency in Corrèze.


He saw it as a launching pad to begin his comeback.

Finally, François Hollande announced to

La Montagne

on Friday that he will not be a candidate in the legislative elections.

The former socialist president was eyeing his former constituency, the 1st of Corrèze.

“I exercised for more than 20 years the mandate of deputy before becoming President of the Republic so I had no vocation to return there except in exceptional circumstances”.

Namely, if the PS,

“after the presidential election, had decided to rebuild itself and to call to reappear at the time of the legislative elections with personalities who had exercised power”

.

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However, believes François Hollande, his party

"decided not to recast but to merge into an unbalanced agreement on the electoral level and not credible on the programmatic level"

.

One way to target the "Nupes", the union of all leftists including the PS, behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

No more "reason to be a candidate"

Drawing up this observation, the former head of state believes that he no longer has

"reason to be a candidate"

, even if

"links (l) 'unite Corrèze"

.

During the distribution of candidacies by the negotiators of the "Nupes", the constituency targeted by François Hollande was also allocated to an Insoumise candidate, Valérie Roussel.

"

I think it was a form of elegance and courtesy

," he quipped on France Inter in early May.

I was a member of this constituency for 24 years.

I think that there are forms of absence of friendship in the Socialist Party which seem harmful to me

, ”he added.

At the risk of pushing the affront, François Hollande therefore chose to support a dissident candidacy, that of Annick Taysse, PS departmental councilor.

His deputy is the socialist mayor of Meymac, Philippe Brugère.

"Their candidacy corresponds in this constituency to the aspiration which is mine, that of rebuilding a socialist, progressive left, capable of representing a credible alternative to the current power between the far right and a radicalism which does not allow convincing"

, justified François Hollande.

Source: lefigaro

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