The former minister, candidate since September, abandons, after a long round of his campaign. He announced that he would not support any other candidate.
Le Monde with AFP
In November 2021, Arnaud Montebourg had decided not to put an end to his campaign. Two months after announcing his candidacy, his proposal to suspend the financial flows to the countries who would refuse to accept their expeditious nationals of France had triggered a trunk of criticism on the left, until dividing his team and destabilize his presidential ambition.
Wednesday 19 January, the former minister of productive recovery finally abandoned, withdrawing his candidacy into A video published on Twitter , at the end of the morning, while Emmanuel Macron was speaking to the European Parliament. The failure of his calls to a gathering on the left of which he had posted the wish to give a second wind to his campaign prompted him not to go further.
“I believe unnecessary and despairing to add disorder to the confusion of too many applications. And in my soul and conscience, I do not want to participate in the devaluation of the democracy we need to build The future “, esteem Arnaud Montebourg in this video, turned on the archaeological site of Bibracte, at the foot of Mount Beuvray, on horseback on the Nièvre and La Saône-et-Loire.
His ideas” N ‘ unfortunately not heard “
The absence of union, despite his calls, makes him say that his ideas “were certainly becoming foreign to [his] own political family”. It follows the list of the main axes of what has been its program: reindustrialisation, the exit of oil with a large part given to nuclear power in the energy mix, the “return to the ground to help the French to leave The metropolises “, an uncompromising secularity,” and a demanding immigration policy in which integration is a duty, for us and for those we decide to welcome “… These ideas” have unfortunately not been heard “, deplore Arnaud Montebourg.
“That’s why I decided to support any candidate, since these outlook traced for the country are not shared,” concludes the former minister. He had discussed, lately, with Christiane Taubira and the Communist Fabien Roussel, but the negotiations did not succeed. “Long live the Republic, lives France! And see you soon!”, “He salutes finally.