Swe choice is made. On April 10, for the first round of the presidential election, François Rebsamen will put the ballot paper bearing the name of Emmanuel Macron in the ballot box. For the former Minister of Labor under François Hollande, also former number two of the Socialist Party and current mayor of Dijon, voting Emmanuel Macron is “an obvious choice”. “No other candidate seems more competent today,” he told Agence France-Presse, confirming an announcement made daily. The Parisian to be published on Sunday.
Emmanuel Macron has “the stature and credibility of a head of state. He has proven it every day while we are at war, ”explained this close friend of former socialist president François Hollande, who denies aiming for a ministerial post under Macron. “I ask nothing for myself. The rallying to the macronie of this former number two of the PS (1997 to 2008) was hardly in doubt.
Rebsamen aware of the “negative aspects” of Macron’s five-year term
Last July, he signed a platform of 350 mayors saluting the “courage” of Emmanuel Macron. In October, he spoke of “common causes” with Territories of Progress, which brings together the left wing of the presidential majority. But the Burgundian said he joined the outgoing president with his “lucidity, knowing the negative and positive aspects of the five-year term”. “The policy of whatever it costs is one of the major elements that made me evolve”, he added, welcoming that France had become “one of the most protective countries in Europe by paying the 8.5 million French people “unemployed during the Covid crisis.
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The socialist, who in 2018 accused Emmanuel Macron of “favoring the richest”, remains however opposed to the abolition of the wealth tax, as well as the reform of unemployment insurance, the “differences in allowances which are not acceptable” and which “must be remedied”. Thus, it is to “weigh” on a new Macron five-year term that François Rebsamen wants to create an “independent social-democratic movement” after the presidential election. “We cannot leave Emmanuel Macron alone with the right,” he believes. To do this, “personalities will join me”, he assures without giving names.“I am and I remain a socialist”
Several other PS figures have recently joined the macronie, including ex-minister Marisol Touraine and Manuel Valls, the former head of government of François Hollande (2014-2016).
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Former Minister of Labor (2014-2015), François Rebsamen had already distanced himself from the PS when Olivier Faure was elected as its head in September. “The PS has become sectarian and no longer speaks to popular circles. He has no vision, no program. Anne Hidalgo is the victim, ”he regretted. The socialist candidate is credited with 2% in the last BVA poll published on Friday, behind the PCF (5%). But “I am and I remain a socialist”, insisted François Rebsamen.