Former socialist minister François Rebsamen announced in an interview with the Tribune Sunday that he is ready to join the government that François Bayrou is seeking to form by Christmas.
“Since 2012, I have repeatedly refused to be a minister. Today, I am ready to commit”declared the former socialist who had supported Emmanuel Macron in 2022 and has just given up the position of mayor of Dijon. François Rebsamen, 73, affirms that this commitment in the next government is motivated by the political and economic situation in the country but also by his personal relationship with the president of MoDem.
“I have had a relationship of trust with the Prime Minister for many years. I think he's the man for the job. He has the culture of compromise that the country needs, he showed it in 2012 by voting for François Hollande. All this carries my decision”he explains.
François Rebsamen, who indicates that he will remain president of the Dijon metropolitan area if he enters the government, had been Minister of Labor for François Hollande. After 2022, he created the Progressive Federation, a “left-wing government movement which brings together elected officials and citizens who no longer recognized themselves in the Socialist Party”.
He also launches an appeal to the PS. “Now is not the time for empty chair politics or electoral calculations. I call on all those who put the interest of the country before their personal interest to participate in the government, or at least to join a broad union of general interest, as the Prime Minister proposed to them.he declares.
