On France Info, the former prime minister said he wanted “the left to come out of the egosphere to enter the atmosphere”.
Does Anne Hidalgo have a chance of winning the presidential election? Asked about this on France Info this Wednesday, Bernard Cazeneuve gave a straight answer. “I am lucid and I think it is better to be especially if we want to achieve the objective of credibility“began the former Prime Minister, who nevertheless has a role of”to advisein the campaign team of the mayor of Paris. “It’s harder for Anne Hidalgo than it has been for other socialist candidates in other eras“, he continued.
According to him, these difficulties exist because “the socialists did not prepare as they should have done for this deadline“. “For five years, the substantive work that needed to be done, reorganization, projection of a project, highlighting of talents, was not done.“, he laments.
He believes that after this “phase of unpreparedness” followed “a phase of improvisation“. “Anne Hidalgo is now right to campaign around her project to try to reverse the trend“, he judges.
“There must be a political force»
Asked about the candidacy of Christiane Taubira, who announced that she would participate in the popular primary, the former Prime Minister did not wish “comment“. “If we want the left to unite, there must be a political force. It is an organization, it is a party which around a speech of responsibility, credibility and a will of transformation of the country decides to create around him an impetus“, he argues. According to him, this is what François Mitterrand did in 1971 when he decided to renovate the Socialist Party at the Epinay Congress.
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“It is this work of bringing together and thinking about the substance that we should have engaged in over the past five years.», Considers Bernard Cazeneuve. And to add that heprefer popular parties to popular primaries“.
According to him, if the left wants to achieve unity, it must have “more ideas and less ego“. “We cannot both want the gathering and create the conditions for additional candidacies every day“, he shouts at his destination in the former Keeper of the Seals. And to conclude:I express the wish that on the left we begin to leave the egosphere to enter the atmosphere“.