Alliance’s fault, the former socialist minister claimed that he would not support any other candidate.
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He will not finally go to the end. While he had entered campaign on September 4, 2021 by doing the “Remontada de la France” his battlehorse, Arnaud Montebourg announced, Wednesday, January 19, his withdrawal from the presidential race 2022. A foreseeable decision, which had Summer announced a few days earlier by his teams and who intervenes after four months torpedening. Failure of alliance, he claimed that he would not support any other candidate.
The former socialist minister of the economy and productive recovery (2012-2014) announced its decision In a video published on its social networks, Wednesday at 11:30, while Emmanuel Macron took the floor at the same time since the European Parliament’s hemicycle for a Very expected statement. The head high, the solemn tone and the gaze immersed in the camera, M. Montebourg spoke directly to the French and French, perched on a blank of the Verdie Hill of Mount Beuvray, symbolic place of the history of France, overlooking The archaeological site of Bibracte. Mount Beuvray has become over his political career an usual meeting for Arnaud Montebourg, spanning his birth department of Nièvre and Saone-et-Loire, in the heart of Morvan.
Recognizing that his campaign failed to print, Arnaud Montebourg says in his video: “I believe useless and despair of adding disorder to the confusion of too many candidatures. And, in my soul. And conscience, I do not want to participate in the devaluation of the democracy we need to build the future. “
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As he points out in his message, the entrepreneur became the chant of the Made in France had made the reindustrialisation of the country, nuclear power, aid to “return to the land to help the French to leave the metropolises “, a vision of the uncompromising secularity and a” demanding immigration policy “the heart of its presidential program, unrolled according to its media interventions.
But in November, two months after his entry into the country, Arnaud Montebourg had met with serious turbulence, which he was still dragging at the beginning of 2022. On November 4, 2021, the visit of the candidate at a manufacturer of sweaters had turned to the media war on the back of false information he had relayed. Then on November 7, the former minister had proposed suspending the financial flows to the countries that would refuse to accept their nationals expelled from France, according to a television interview. A proposal that triggered a trunk of criticism on the left and sparked friction and defections within his campaign team. Despite serious doubts, Mr. Montebourg had finally decided to continue his race for the Elysée.
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