François Hollande is the Bob Dylan of the French left. As enduring and persevering as the 83-year-old American bard, who continues his endless tour (his endless concert tour), the former president, 70, embarked on a similar journey, certainly less rocker than political. Where will this take you? Becoming the first former French president to achieve go backin 2027? On Tuesday, November 12, he stopped at a cafe on 11th Street.my district of Paris for an hour of conversations with socialist sympathizers. François Hollande spoke on conquered ground, under the aegis of Laurent Joffrin, former director of Release and recent founder of the site Lejournal.infowho has been following him step by step for years.
The launch of his latest book, The challenge of governing. The left and power since the Dreyfus case (Perrin, 416 pages, 23 euros), the third in four years, and these multiple signing sessions throughout the country allow the deputy for Corrèze to multiply the variations on a single eternal theme: we must tell, once again and always, with the first. president (2012-2017). François Hollande told in particular a funny and exclusive anecdote: “In 2016, at the end of my five-year term, I asked to print posters where it would be written”It wasn’t that bad”. Obviously, that wasn’t convincing enough. »
François Hollande stopped running in 2017, but history may not repeat itself: “The more time passes, the more I restore my own balance. » He paused and then: “We can justify our own results without saying that we are necessarily going to do the same thing again. » The subtitle is increasingly explicit and extends a euphemism, a rhetorical figure that he especially likes, expressed at the end of October, in the quarterly magazine. The hemicycle : “I am not indifferent to 2027.”
The next guest of Lejournal.info It will be Bernard Cazeneuve, his former prime minister. François Hollande did not seem offended. We specify this because a sudden form of competition arose between the two men, at a time when Emmanuel Macron was looking, after the dissolution in June, for a prime minister. Bernard Cazeneuve, highly anticipated for his appointment in Matignon, was finally rejected in favor of Michel Barnier and is angry with François Hollande, his political friend since the late 2000s. He suspects that he would have wanted to abort his appointment. Bernard Cazeneuve expressed his thoughts in Sunday’s TribuneNovember 3: “This summer’s episode didn’t reveal anything I didn’t already know about François, so it didn’t change anything between us. »
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