Bernard Cazeneuve does not like rebellious France... and he likes to say it again.
The former Prime Minister criticized this Sunday the “demagogue” and “confrontation” strategy of La France insoumise (LFI), which by “encouraging all disinhibitions” “manufactures far-right votes in industrial quantities”.
Bernard Cazeneuve left the Socialist Party when the Nupes agreement was signed in May, before launching a "manifesto" to "refound" a Republican left.
“As long as the left is not on the path to credibility, it cannot embody an alternation, and from the moment it encourages all disinhibitions through its positions, we see who benefits from it,” said he said in reference to the National Rally and its 89 deputies.
“If I am on this critical strategy, it is not because I am unfavorable to the union of the left, I am very favorable to the positions of Fabien Roussel, Yannick Jadot and others”, a-t he clarified, citing officials skeptical about the Nupes.
“I am not in favor of a strategy that manufactures far-right votes in industrial quantities,” slammed Bernard Cazeneuve.
“Demagogues who care first and foremost about themselves”
There are in his eyes "demagogues who are above all concerned about themselves: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, certain apparatchiks of the Socialist Party who have preferred to preserve their own future rather than enroll in the great tradition" socialist, added the former boss of Place Beauvau.
Bernard Cazeneuve mocked at LFI "ideology of confrontation" endangering "national unity", "complicity with dictators" or even the attack on "the republican ideal of universalism and secularism".
“I am not impressed by those who, during a presidential election, obtain a score and speak loudly,” he insisted.
Moreover, “if Olivier Faure loses the Socialist Party congress” in January, “I will come back to it with happiness since I left it with sadness”, announced Bernard Cazeneuve.