The former Prime Minister had a time thought of an application. Faced with the difficulties of the left, he now theorizes the way conducive to a return of social democracy.
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A time presented to embody the socialist candidacy, Bernard Cazeneuve assures him: he started withdrawal from the public life “without nostalgia” or bitterness. In the epilogue of the third component of his memoirs of government, the meaning of our nation (Stock, 200 pages, 19.90 euros), published in January, the former minister thinks about the future of social democracy, at the time when Anne Hidalgo’s candidacy threatens. Almost a manifesto. It begins with a severe statement: “I see the role plays and the personal ambitions fill the columns of a gourmet press of episodes at the age of the series, and what appeared to me ordinary, when I was in office , now turns out to my eyes, “he writes.
As for the multiplication of candidates: “Those who project themselves, on the front of an already overcrowded scene, are not aware that they are like these antique and amputered statues, painting to remain standing in the middle of A field of ruins. “If the doubt remained, the Socialists are well included in this criticism. Interviewed Saturday, January 22 in West-France , on the existence of a risk of implosion of the PS after the election, he answers: “It would be necessary for that another device at that time.”
“Rebuilding step by step”
Far from the parties, discreet support from Anne Hidalgo, Bernard Cazeneuve lives in the middle of the books, cultivates his garden, and theorize after. That of a left of government today lost, laminated in particular by its failure to assume the legacy of François Hollande. “We need to clear a devastated political landscape and rebuild not what needs to be”, “he writes, away from” grandiloquent postures of insequent “. A left that is not decreasing. Neither engaged in fights seen as minority.
Because, he believes, no one “can admit that the big causes that made the most ardent fights for equality, justice, the rejection of racism, anti-Semitism, state violence Following all the damned of the earth, become the monopoly of the damned themselves “. On all subjects, Bernard Cazeneuve poses as a response the idea of ”nation”. This brings a conclusion in the form of a promise: “It is this quest for the deep meaning of the nation that seems to me alone worth it. Today and always.”