l'Opinion

Oct 15, 2023

The PS must “regain its autonomy” and its “compass” believes François Hollande In an interview in L’Opinion, the former head of state believes that the Socialist Party must “find its autonomy” vis-à-vis France Insoumise but it must also “find its compass from the point of view of ideas and positions”. The former first secretary of the PS (between 1997 and 2008) has always been hostile to Nupes. The Socialist Party must “regain its autonomy” vis-à-vis La France insoumise and “its compass”, judges the former President of the Republic François Hollande on Sunday in an interview in Opinion. Judging the left “harassed and disjointed by its most radical wing”, François Hollande, hostile from the start to the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes), considers that the socialist party “must not only regain its autonomy, but regain its compass from the point of view of ideas and positions, as the PCF has just decided”, which adopted a resolution calling for “a new type of union” of the left. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to be the biggest of the little ones on the left” “It is the PS which has always given the line of the French left,” defends the former president. “If he persists in settling into the background for fear of no longer being in the Nupes, the entire French left will sink and renounce power,” he warns. For François Hollande, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s objective “is not to be in the majority in the country, it is to be alone against everyone to better retain the loyalty of what he believes to be his electoral base and that he confused with ‘the people’. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to be the biggest of the little ones on the left,” he adds. But for him, “it is not by refusing to qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization that LFI will mechanically collect the votes of Muslim voters. They, too, are frightened by terrorist actions, violence and insecurity”. François Hollande said he “observed with interest and relief the distancing of François Ruffin and his friends from the statements of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as well as their firm and clear condemnation of Hamas terrorism.” “But with such disagreements, how can they remain within the LFI parliamentary group? Far be it from me to want to recover future social democrats in the socialist family, I respect their identity, but it is a question of consistency,” he insists. Source: Europe1