Bernard Cazeneuve had been left one evening at the end of summer 2020 on the edge of the very rural football field of Frangy-en-Bresse, traditional place of the rose festival of Saône-et-Loire. "The left needs an ambition, it does not need additional ambitious," said the former prime minister at the time in front of a few hundred people. A polite way to definitively close the door to a candidacy in 2022 and to slip away from the spotlight of political life. Nearly three years, and a presidential election later, Bernard Cazeneuve is back alone on stage. The former mayor of Cherbourg has this time seen things big. At the Palais des Sports in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), which the heat of these beautiful days of June transformed into an oven this Saturday afternoon, his new movementLa Convention claims 2000 people in the room. Not trivial for a left-wing rally in 2023.
"I have been elected eleven times, candidate twelve times"
If he did not want to get on the train of the last presidential election, Bernard Cazeneuve does not exclude...
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