Is the Socialist Party isolating itself from its New Popular Front allies? Guest of RTL, Monday January 20, François Hollande strongly criticized the posture of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in recent weeks, who calls for censorship of the Bayrou government, like that of his predecessor Michel Barnier. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon awaits a presidential election that does not come“, pointed out the former head of state. “This is not the conception that I have of institutions, which are made to be respected”, continued François Hollande.
“It is not by blocking the entire governmental process, by possibly stopping a budget and successively bringing down governments that we will be able to find the best position for the country and the left“, also estimated the former President of the Republic. “Politics is made to allow our fellow citizens to have hope and stability“, insisted François Hollande, when discussing the non-vote of the socialists on the censorship tabled by La France insoumise and voted for by the ecologists and the communists. “Olivier Faure led the appropriate discussions”, he insisted. affirmed after the compromises reached with the government.
Finally, François Hollande once again confirmed that “il there will be two candidates on the left” for the 2027 presidential election. “What can make the left win? It is not with the left expressed and demonstrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,” he said.
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