The former socialist president “does not rule out” running for the legislative elections in the first constituency of Corrèze, said his entourage.
Former Socialist President François Hollande, who will be at the meeting of PS candidate Anne Hidalgo in Limoges on Tuesday evening, “does not rule out” running for the legislative elections in the first constituency of Corrèze, said his entourage.
After having denied at the end of January the intentions attributed to the former head of state to stand for legislative elections in the first constituency of Corrèze, the same source now declares that “it is not excluded”, confirming information from “L ‘Opinion’, without further details.
The entourage of the former head of state affirmed in January that these rumors around a possible candidacy for the legislative elections were “part of the speculations, rumors and fantasies of each other, but not of the reflection of François Hollande, who is not at all in this process”. A Socialist Party executive told AFP on Tuesday that “at this stage”, he believed “little” in the likelihood of a candidacy from the former president.
A “four stripe game”
Other socialist executives are part of a “four-sided game” of François Hollande, who was tried at the end of January to replace Anne Hidalgo in the race for the Elysée, because of bad polls, but who “didn’t failed to demonstrate that he was the ideal candidate”. Corrèze being “in the hand” of the ex-president, it is “not impossible”, even if “the constituency delegates have already been appointed”, “that he put a straw candidate in his place “to “move more freely”, believe these sources.
In the first constituency of Corrèze, it is the regional councilor Pascal Cavitte who is currently appointed. But the appointment of constituency delegates is not worth investiture, they recall. This is a first step, before possible alliances with other left-wing parties. François Hollande, cold with the direction of the PS, will support Tuesday evening in Limoges Anne Hidalgo, credited with approximately 2% of the voting intentions. The ex-president had until then been little involved in Anne Hidalgo’s campaign, with the exception of a meeting during a trip by the candidate to Tulle, her Corrèze stronghold.