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François Hollande launches a podcast

The former President of the Republic intends to address a younger audience far removed from politics. However, he denies wanting to make it a platform for 2027.

François Hollande continues his return. The former President of the Republic returned to the benches of the National Assembly thanks to the dissolution, and now discovers the microphone, reveals FranceInfo . He is launching a podcast, the first episode of which will be released this Saturday on major online platforms, and should last approximately forty-five minutes. On the program: the American elections commented with Amy K. Green, an author of America after Obama, and referent «discriminations» at Sciences Po .

François Hollande, who plans to publish one to two episodes per month, will be theinterviewer. If he does not “ask the questions”, he will not hesitate to “intervene sometimes”, he tells FranceInfo. “My interest is to have a little humility, to say to myself that I myself am trying to understand and that I am inviting people that I have been lucky enough to be able to ask because I am in this situation and which I make available to others. The topics will revolve around the major global and social issues of the time.

The former president wishes to address a younger audience, one sometimes far removed from traditional party politics. He wants “reach a certain number of people who would not necessarily come to listen to me when I hold meetings and conferences. However, he defends himself, we should not see “a means of propaganda for a possible candidacy for the 2027 presidential election.I am now in the National Assembly, I can speak or give my feelings on important subjects. I don't need to have an additional vector”, he said.

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