Former socialist president François Hollande, who held the Elysée between 2012 and 2017, surprised this Saturday by announcing that he is running for deputy in the early elections to be held in France on June 30 and July 7. He will do it for the New Popular Front, the coalition that brings together the left and that proposes a very radical program.
Hollande, 69, justified the step taken by the danger of the extreme right gaining access to the government. “It is a rather unusual decision for a former president to run again, but I have made it because I believe that the situation is very serious, exceptional; The extreme right has never been so close to power since the liberation (1944),” said the former president during a visit to his apartment in Corrèze. He will be a candidate precisely for this department in the center of the country. In Tulle, where Hollande was mayor and made the announcement, the National Rally obtained 26.73% of votes in the European elections, while the socialists, in alliance with Plaza Pública, achieved 20.77% support and the Macronists the 11.3%.
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Hollande’s candidacy raises questions. According to him, he did it out of a sense of duty. “I did not lose my values when I left the Elysée,” he stressed. But it is not clear that his co-religionists are very happy. The current president of the party, Olivier Faure, found out from the press and had a rather cold reaction. Hollande left the Elysée without wanting to run for re-election. His game was left in tatters and he still hasn’t recovered. He recently harshly criticized the radical left, so it is quite surprising that he has now aligned himself with the New Popular Front. For him, the priority for the left is to unite to confront the extreme right.
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