François Hollande notes it without nuance: “It’s not going well” for his camp. The former President of the Republic spoke regarding the political situation of the left, during a meeting with high school students, filmed and broadcast on France 3, Sunday evening. Incidentally, the socialist indicated that he was “not yet a candidate”, before adding that he would soon speak.
Faced with the multiplication of candidates on the left, the former president nevertheless wonders regarding the usefulness of one more candidacy. “As things are not going well, it is true that we might say to ourselves would one more application be very helpful? I don’t know, I don’t think so either,” he said.
“I have the same ideas as before so I continue to defend them”, he continued before adding that “a former president can redo politics and, it happened, be a candidate for the ‘presidential election “. Wanting to clarify his position, the socialist indicated “to speak soon”.
“Lilliputian” candidacies
According to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll on Saturday for Le Monde, the Jean Jaurès Foundation and Cevipof, the left would be rolled on April 10 with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at 8%, Yannick Jadot at 7%, Christiane Taubira at 5% and Anne Hidalgo at 3.5%.
In a book published last October, François Hollande attacked his successor Emmanuel Macron, while trouncing the left, judging all the candidates “Lilliputian”. “It is the entire left that risks marginalization if it does not manage to be in the second round,” he lamented in an interview given to Parisian.
