Solene Delinger
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8:50 a.m., July 13, 2022
Stéphane Le Foll was the guest of Europe 1 this Wednesday morning. At the microphone of Thierry Dagiral, the former PS minister felt that “macronism had finished its cycle”. According to him, the political movement of Emmanuel Macron will run out after years of difficulties in “designing itself”.
Stéphane Le Foll calls on socialists to think about the future and to rebuild a left outside the framework of Nupes. The mayor of Le Mans, guest this Wednesday morning of Europe 1, believes that a political space will have to be filled because “macronism has finished its cycle”.
The challenge after Macron
“Macronism had a major difficulty: to conceive itself, except with its at the same time, ‘I sting a little in all the baskets’ and in the end, we have the result we have today” , he laments. “So macronism has finished its cycle. And you will see very quickly that at Macron, between Edouard Philippe and others, there will be this post-Macron issue”. It is for this reason that the mayor of Le Mans appeals to his socialist friends: according to him, it is necessary to rebuild a “European and united left”.
A speech for the “insecure strata of the country”
“Because she went to Macron or abstained,” he said. The former minister under François Hollande explains that it is also essential for the left to address the voters of the National Rally. “We have to find a language, a discourse that is addressed to what I call the insecure layers who today, in their large majority, vote for the National Rally”, he assures on Europe 1.
François Hollande had a “line”
According to Stéphane Le Foll, the PS got to where it is today because François Hollande never had the opportunity to defend his record. “It is indeed the subject that is underlying today, it is that the criticisms of part of the left relate to the balance sheet of François Hollande. It was not defended, so everyone was able, at From there, occupy that space,” he explains. “I have been one of the few for five years to try both to defend a very clear part of this balance sheet, which can be disputed on a certain number of aspects, but which overall had a line, a strategy to try to think about the future”.