The video of François Hollande, who was visiting a rugby club which was celebrating its 120th anniversary, is making the rounds on the networks.
The former President of the Republic announced that he was a candidate for the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7 in the first constituency of Corrèze, joining the New Popular Front. A return to the countryside, to his stronghold, for François Hollande who made a strong impression by taking part in the 120th anniversary of the Bort-les-Orgues rugby club, Saturday June 22, 2024.
Under amused looks and encouragement, and in front of the cameras, François Hollande played the game of dry ass and finished a pint of beer in one go. A video widely relayed on social networks:
“Macronism is over”
This Saturday, the former president also made a scathing media outing against Emmanuel Macron’s government. “Macronism is over. If it ever existed, but it’s over […]. What he was able to represent at one point is over.”
Assuring that he has no revenge to take, François Hollande, 69, says he has no “particular hostility” against his former advisor at the Elysée and Minister of the Economy (2014-2016). “I have no score to settle. Not at all. All that has passed,” he promises.
Noting the “dysfunction” of the political system, determined to shake up traditional right-left divisions and without a structured party behind him, Emmanuel Macron left the government in 2016 to run for president the following year, which he would win. facing far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. For his part, François Hollande, very unpopular, gave up running in 2017, with some commentators describing him as the victim of “patricide” on the part of the young Emmanuel Macron – elected at the age of 39 – and his presidential ambition.
François Hollande explains that he decided to return to the electoral arena after Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of the surprise dissolution of the National Assembly in the wake of the success of the National Rally (far right) in the European elections. The former president said he then asked himself: “What should I do in this circumstance where the extreme right could come to power tomorrow, or very close to power if we are to believe the estimates, and with another risk which is that of instability, that is to say that no majority emerges the day after the election?
Now the fourth favorite political figure of the French, François Hollande claims to have “no” other ambition. “I have already been president, why become a deputy again? There is no presidential election. What would be the point? I could have very well, if I had, say, an aim for 2027, tell me: I’m going to wait […] looking at the chaos to possibly be a recourse. But that no longer works.” François Hollande nevertheless believes that he will not be “an MP like the others”: “[…] whatever the outcome of the vote, taking into account the position that was mine, also taking into account the experience that was mine, I will be a deputy who will be both vigilant and committed to finding the solutions”.
