The former President of the Republic returned, Monday, May 9 on France Inter, on the Ukrainian crisis, then gave his opinion on the union of the left, criticizing in passing the socialist party which finds itself diluted in this new formation.
François Hollande began his interview by giving his point of view on the ceremony organized by Vladimir Putin in Moscow which celebrates the defeat of Nazi Germany by Russian forces during the Second World War. For him, it’s one more show of force: “He always uses force because the relationship of domination is part of his diplomacy. Without prejudging what he is going to say, he will say that the military operation – therefore the war – will continue. He wants to control the entire coastline, find Odessa and cut Ukraine off from any access to war. »
On the subject of European sanctions against Russia, the former president said in favor of an embargo: “Europe must carry out the embargo, it is slow to come and we must go much further, but with the known consequences. We must provide weapons, because we cannot let the Ukrainians suffer as they do. He also explained that we must continue to speak to the master of the Kremlin but “only if a strong message can be sent to him. »
On Emmanuel Macron’s upcoming trips, François Hollande declared “that he goes to Berlin is absolutely necessary because the Franco-German couple is essential to move Europe forward”, adding that “he must go to kyiv in the coming days. It would be necessary, desirable, symbolic.
“Martine Aubry advocates at the national level what she has not done at the local level”
Then came the subject on which the whole left speaks: the NUPES (New Popular Ecological and Social Union): “The union is desirable. The left must send as many deputies as possible to the National Assembly. It is desired by voters on the left, but it must be electorally balanced and programmatically credible, but it is not. »
The ex-president, however, criticized his party, which lets itself be diluted in this large formation: “On the electoral level, having 70 candidates out of 577 constituencies is a fault. Because many socialist candidates would have been in better dispositions compared to candidates from France Insoumise. They will be 370? It is an imbalance in relation to political reality. »
More than the socialist party, these are specific points of the popular union that François Hollande called into question: “The union must be concerned with truth and credibility; truth, when she says that the government of the majority could not respect the treaties, worse, to make that one can that the treaties are not taken as such? On credibility, when we say retirement at 60, sixth week of paid vacation, income for all young people, increase in the minimum wage, how is this financed? »
He took the opportunity to slip a tackle to “Martine Aubry [qui] advocates at the national level what it has not done at the local level. Two years ago, did she join the Insoumis and the Greens in her own city? No. He reiterated that he was not “against the union, but against an agreement which, as it stands, does not allow victory or the establishment of another policy. »
François Hollande cut the left in two: “A radical, and a reformist. When the reformist left is stronger than the radical, it makes it possible to be in power. When the radical is stronger, it does not compromise, therefore cannot gain power. ” For him, ” the day after the legislative elections, it will be necessary to make a big movement. “The former president said he regretted this political recomposition and said he hoped “that we find relevant divisions. »
He explained that he is still a member of the socialist party at the present time while castigating, bitterly, that there are “forms of inelegance, of absence of friendship in the socialist party which seem to me harmful. » [au sujet d’une investiture d’un candidat LFI dans sa circonscription]