Former Socialist Prime Minister arrives in the reinforcement in the Anne Hidalgo campaign, who is struggling, stuck in internal divisions.
Le Monde with AFP
“True to his political family”, Bernard Cazeneuve, the former Socialist Prime Minister took on Saturday, February 5, the head of the National Support Committee of Anne Hidalgo. A reinforcement that occurs at the moment when the Socialist Party (PS) is divided on the future of the candidacy of the Mayor of Paris, in difficulty in the polls.
Speaking before the candidate and several members of his support committee, including Senator Patrick Kanner or MP Valérie Rabault, Mr. Cazeneuve detailed the reasons why he accepted “happyly” to chair this committee, Welcoming in particular “the person” of Anne Hidalgo and his “values”. “Anne Hidalgo says things clearly and I find myself there … She is intractable about the Questions of the Republic.”
In this “campaign of lowering and violence”, we must “convene the fundamental republican values, concord, respect, secularism. (…) That is the Republic, and it is not the willingness to seduce population segments, “he hammered.
“I am socialist, resolutely,” he continued, and “I tend to be faithful to my political family, and especially since the times are more difficult than they were once” . “Affirmed with pride our identity,” added the former Minister of the Interior, evoking the great successes of the left, such as the abolition of the death penalty, the major social reforms, or the COP21 on the climate. .
François Hollande soon in a meeting of Anne Hidalgo
Asked about some of his recent remarks criticizing the PS, Bernard Cazeneuve explained to have said “that we might not have enoughly worked enough”. “It first addressed me,” he said.
“We are the left of government. Generally, when the left arrives in power, it is that the real is difficult (…) It is always when the crisis is there that this left is called to govern. because the French seek a path of hope, “he insisted.
Anne Hidalgo lamented for his part that we want to “delegitimate the family we are”. Asked whether it was afraid that the PS asked him to withdraw, the presidential candidate of the Republic, stored around 3% in the voting intentions, retorted to the press: “You will tire you before me! ME BACK. “” The Socialist Party has a candidate called Anne Hidalgo, “also answered the President of the region Occitanie Carole Delga, a member of his campaign team, who spoke on behalf of the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, absent because of Covid.
Anne Hidalgo also announced that the former President François Hollande would soon participate in one of his great meetings. The latter recently maintained the blur on its intentions in this presidential campaign.