For the former Minister of the Interior, “a political party does not have to speak to segments of society, but to the whole Nation”.
Former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve believes that “a large part of the left has gone astray” in a “Communitarianism” implicating “Secularism and the unity of the Republic”, Thursday in an interview with the media Le Droit de vivre.
Asked about the possibility for the left to triumph over populism, the former Minister of the Interior said: “It will achieve this only by clearly breaking with the line of cancel culture, wokism, complacency with regard to communitarianism which plague certain movements and which are incompatible with my conception of secularism, of the unity and indivisibility of the Republic ”.
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To argue that a “A large part of the left has gone astray”, Bernard Cazeneuve refers in particular to the demonstration “against Islamophobia” in November 2019 in Paris, in which several left officials participated, especially Insoumis, environmentalists and the far left.
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But he also criticizes, without naming her, the former candidate of the PS for the regional 2021 in Île-de-France, Audrey Pulvar, who had declared it desirable that a “white man be silent” during meetings on racial discrimination: “It is the very negation of republican thought and of universalism that it carries like a hope”. And he jeers at the Terra Nova think tank which, in view of the 2012 presidential election, recommended that the PS address the “Minorities as so many reference categories”.
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Bernard Cazeneuve explains: “We run desperately behind minorities as well as after so many clienteles, seeking at all costs to seduce them, with the concern of short-term electoral benefits.” But according to him, “A political party does not have to speak to particular segments of society, but to the whole Nation”.
The one who was once expected to be a candidate for the presidential election also delivers his vision of a possible “union” on the left, currently pushed by the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo and the former minister Christiane Taubira, who “envisages” a candidacy. “If there is no strength, there can be no union,” he said. When everything is weakness, the addition of insignificant particles inevitably results in subtracting even smaller scores from small electoral scores. ”
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