Invited by the Socialist candidate at the Meeting of Limoges, the former president recalled his loyalty while leaving the creation of a new political movement “to rebuild the left of responsibility”.
When François Hollande sprung from his car, after four hours thirty of the road, he had a big smile like that and ants full legs. More than ten years he did not speak speeches in a presidential campaign. Tuesday, March 22, Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate, gave a meeting in Limoges, and she had invited the last socialist president to come to support her. A moment that should have been quite trivial, three weeks of the first round, to try, an ultimate time, to revive a campaign in agony.
In reality, this evening looked strange. There are still ten days ago, François Hollande cultivated a great secret that Anne Hidalgo did not know much. The former president prepared for two months between December 2021 and February, to embody a possible presidential appeal if ever Anne Hidalgo decided to withdraw. François Hollande came to support a candidate he had hoped to see give up before the end of his campaign. François Hollande did not go to the end of his attempt, but some sequelae could reasonably subsist at the time of the reunion.
However, in Tuesday’s day, on the Paris-Limoges road of this meeting not like the others, the state of mind of each other was obviously the same. Arrival early on the spot, Anne Hidalgo was delighted, according to his entourage, of the presence of François Hollande. After placing former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve at the head of his support committee, she welcomed himself to continue to bring together his great family thanks to the presence of an ex-president who had, so far, let out . The day before, Anne Hidalgo phoned François Hollande. To stall their respective speeches: his program for her, the international situation and the future of the Socialist Party (PS) for him. They took great care to never mention the recent election vells of the former president.
“I always vote socialist”
This one made a trip without frills. He arrived in Limoges just before his speaking and he resumed the road shortly after Anne Hidalgo. But he was happy, too. Even though, a few hours before his conversation with the Mayor of Paris, he was somewhat annoyed by the blur that would still contribute to the organization of the meeting. A little like the socialist campaign, finally. He had, in addition, a slight fear that the exhibition center is not quite full.
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