Former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve wished on Saturday to reconnect with a “left without decibels but with solutions”, in a long speech concluding his movement the Convention, in the form of a pre-candidacy for the presidential election of 2027.
“It is the life-changing left of government that you seek to revive,” Bernard Cazeneuve declared in front of around 2,000 people, before launching into a speech in which he spoke at length about France, its language, its culture and his history.
Very severe on the “strategy of confrontation” developed by La France insoumise for six years, he defended “a daring left to build the future, without decibels but with solutions”.
The former mayor of Cherbourg left the PS after the Nupes agreement concluded more than a year ago with LFI, EELV, the Communists and the Socialists. With his movement, he intends to federate the left tendencies hostile to this alliance.
The former Minister of the Interior, who paid tribute to François Hollande but also to François Mitterrand and Michel Rocard, did not spare Emmanuel Macron, however, holding, according to him, of a “new right” which “flatters the clienteles” and “opposes the categories”.
But, he repeated, “the main adversary” remains “the extreme right and the extreme right”.
Bernard Cazeneuve has throughout his speech outlined a possible presidential candidacy, assuring the room of his “will”, his “stubbornness” and his “determination” because “the Nation aspires to another path”.
“To those who seem to fear” that he is a candidate, he replies: “when you have been a candidate 12 times in an election, nothing in the electoral code prevents you from being a candidate a 13th time”.
10/06/2023 20:55:50 – Créteil (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
