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Having become a deputy for Corrèze again in July, the former president wants to influence a potential renaissance of social democracy and has lost none of his Elysian ambitions.
Mid-June is fast approaching. François Hollande gathers around him a handful of faithful people in his Parisian offices on rue de Rivoli, with a breathtaking view of the Tuileries garden. The time has come to debrief the 8 p.m. broadcast of TF1 during which the former president affirmed his approval of the agreement reached by the socialists, the rebels, the ecologists and the communists to constitute the New Popular Front, to lead the legislative battle triggered by the dissolution of the National Assembly. His communicators, Gaspard Gantzer and Robert Zarader, who pushed him to speak on the most watched news in France, are delighted to see that their recommendation has been followed. However, the two men would like the former head of state to go further. “You’ve taken the first step, now introduce yourself,” they whisper, in front of Laurent Joffrin who almost chokes. Being a candidate in an alliance with LFI is not serious, grumbles the former boss of Released, close friend of today's host. But Hollande does not dismiss the hypothesis out of hand. Go back? The risk is great. A defeat at home in Corrèze would definitively mark the end of his political life. “If you lose in your garden, all you have to do is stay here and plant cabbages on rue de Rivoli,” the two advisors tickle him. The idea of returning
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