If he left the Socialist Party to protest against the Nupes agreement, Bernard Cazeneuve did not give up his political ambition.
The former prime minister of François Hollande therefore decided to launch and structure his own movement, anchored on the left and baptized “The Convention”.
"It refers to the debate, to a place where everyone brings what they feel they can bring to contribute to a collective work
," he explained Thursday in a video interview with the review
L'Hémicycle
.
In mid-February, a hundred elected officials, including the former PS president of the Brittany region Loïg Chesnais-Girard, had supported the initiative in a forum in the
Journal du Dimanche
.
"Space of Respect"
Bernard Cazeneuve thus intends to bring
“a space of credibility, of respectability”
in the face of a
“left totally paralyzed by this alliance”
of the Nupes
“which manufactures the National Rally vote in industrial quantities”
.
The former socialist, however, ensures not to be in a personal
"approach"
.
"I do it with the desire to create the conditions for a new collective adventure
," he explains.
And to specify at the same time:
“If I am asked to take my responsibilities, I will take them.
But I will not be one of those who will destroy a hypothesis with great energy if it was not their apple that was able to embody things
.
The new leader of “The Convention” now wishes to
“deploy it everywhere on the national territory
” so that
“when the time comes, there is a project”
.
This Saturday, he will be in particular in Foix (Ariège) where he will support Martine Froger, socialist dissident candidate for the partial legislative of the department.
In the name of the Nupes pact, the PS has decided to support the outgoing LFI deputy, Bénédicte Taurine.
Awakening in fact some deep divisions within the direction.
