Former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced on Tuesday that he would leave the PS in the event of an agreement with La France insoumise. Representatives of the two parties are currently negotiating to unite in the June legislative elections.
Like a minority current in the Socialist Party and other figures such as François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve refuses this prospect of an agreement, which “would signify the denial of our convictions and the forgetting of our achievements, a breach of our history, a renunciation of the future,” he said in a message posted on Facebook.
“Because I am faithful to republican socialism and I will remain so, I will not be able, in conscience and in responsibility, to remain in the party whose leaders will have forgotten what founds it and lost their compass”, explained the former resident. of Matignon.
An agreement for the legislative elections could occur in the evening between the PS and LFI, like the agreements of the Insoumis with EELV and the PCF, despite “blockages” which persist on the distribution of constituencies.
“without consultation of the members”
In the event of departure from the PS, Bernard Cazeneuve hopes for the creation of a new formation: “It is up to the Socialists, again and again, to rebuild this force which must once again become the pillar of the alternation to which our voters aspire and which our country”.
For him, “in politics, defeat does not explain everything nor can it justify everything”. The former Minister of the Interior criticized “the current leaders of the Socialist Party who have engaged, without consulting the members, in negotiations with LFI”, “while Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party has fought the Socialist Party relentlessly”. .
According to the former Prime Minister of François Hollande, his party should make the “choice of dignity” for the legislative elections: “To appear before voters proud of our values and under our colors in the first round, in order to unite with the other formations of the republican left and the ecologists in the second”.