The presidential election has one more contender. Bernard Cazeneuve says he is “ready to be a candidate in 2027”, in an interview published by Le Figaro on Tuesday April 28. The former Prime Minister and former Minister of the Interior, who left the Socialist Party in 2022 and created his movement La Convention, claims to have “brought together local and national elected officials of different sensibilities, all located on the center left or on the left”, to develop a project.
“The political landscape is dominated by two dégagismes which have common characteristics and support each other,” analyzes Mr. Cazeneuve to justify his candidacy: “The far-right dégagisme uses the excesses of the extreme left as a pretext to explain that the time has come for the party of order. Far-left degagism brandishes the danger of fascism to explain that the rally around it is an absolute emergency. »
The former prime minister of François Hollande therefore intends to “create the conditions for the broadest possible gathering around a responsible and credible project”. It is necessary, he says, “that an aggregation takes place, which allows the candidate who will embody him to be present in the second round of the presidential election and to win it”.
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Claiming to be from the center left, Mr. Cazeneuve distances himself from François Hollande and criticizes the Socialist Party project and its relationship with La France insoumise. “There are many blind spots in this project, which can be explained by the desire of its editors to spare partners at all costs,” believes Mr. Cazeneuve.
Manuel Valls “waits for answers”
“The left is not leftism,” asserts the former socialist, who rejects any proximity to the right in this interview: “The right makes Chimène eyes at the far right. I fight it resolutely,” he said.
Earlier in the day, it was Manuel Valls, also a former prime minister and former interior minister of François Hollande, who declared on BFM-TV not to rule out a candidacy for the 2027 presidential election. “I will see what I do in the fall, but I think that the ideas that I defend will be at the heart of the campaign, I am waiting for answers,” warned Mr. Valls.
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Originally published at Almouwatin.com
