Former Overseas Minister Manuel Valls believes in an interview with Le Point that Emmanuel Macron embodies “the denial of politics”, while calling for a “coalition of the center-right with the socialists” for the 2027 presidential elections.
“Macronism was not a coalition based on reciprocal commitments, but rather the absorption of traditional parties (…). It was the denial of politics,” declared the former Prime Minister in this interview published this Tuesday, October 21.
According to him, “we must invent something more than the renewal of ‘at the same time’ to “avoid the confrontation in 2027 between LFI and RN.”
“We must build a coalition from the center-right to the socialists, based on a project that is not just the rejection of LFI and RN,” he adds.
“Neither bitterness nor resentment” for having been excluded from the government
Manuel Valls, appointed Minister of State for Overseas Territories by François Bayrou in December 2024, was re-elected in Lecornu’s short-lived first government before being replaced by Horizons MP Naïma Moutchou in the second.
“I have neither rancor nor resentment,” he assures, although he considers that his mission “was intended to continue” to “implement the Bougival agreement on New Caledonia” and “carry out institutional projects for Guyana, Martinique and Guadeloupe.”
He claims not to have understood the decision of the Head of State and the Prime Minister, which he attributes to “a mixture of pettiness and cynicism.”
“I am undoubtedly paying for the fact that I managed to reestablish dialogue in New Caledonia, while those who decided on my departure failed in this matter,” he considers.
In May 2024, riots broke out in New Caledonia following an electoral reform approved in Paris, considered a “strong measure” by separatists. These riots left 14 dead and more than two billion euros in damage and since then New Caledonia has remained economically exhausted.
In the Caledonian territory, where the Bougival agreement between the State, the loyalists and some separatists was concluded under his aegis in July, he considers that “there is no other option but to apply” this text, which provides for a “State of New Caledonia” enshrined in the French Constitution.
Manuel Valls, however, asks to “find an intelligent agreement with the FLNKS”, which rejects the agreement.
Source: BFM TV
