Bernard Cazeneuve scratches the rebels again. Invited this Friday morning from France, François Hollande’s former Minister of the Interior believes that the latter “expressed himself by summoning all the excesses.”
The former Place Beauvau tenant notably alluded to Jean-Mélenchon’s tweet in which he believed “the police kill.” But also to the “issue of secularism” on which he is in favor of “not making (any) concession to the republican heritage.” “I do not confuse the left and extremism,” insisted the one who was also Minister of the Interior during the five-year term of François Hollande.
Fiercely opposed to the formation of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), Bernard Cazeneuve left the Socialist Party last May, of which he had been a member since 1987. He accuses the leadership of his former political party of being “stubborn”. . by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France.
On France 2, he repeats his disapproval:
If the union of the left consists of breaking all the locks that gradually lead it to move away from what is the melting pot of the republican ideal, then it is not the union of the left that we promote, it is the union of the right and the extreme right” , said.
A “situation of absolute absurdity”
For his part, Bernard Cazeneuve wants to lead the “current leaders of the left” to “change course.” In this sense, he published a manifesto at the beginning of September and wishes to launch a “reflection movement”.
After Fabien Roussel created controversy within the Nupes by declaring his preference for the “work left” over that of the “allocs”, Bernard Cazeneuve took advantage of this sequence to address the alliance of the left. Still on France 2, he denounces “the state of unreason” of this debate.
“Calling Fabien Roussel as a rightist because he raises the question of the value of work (…) shows that we are in a situation of absolute absurdity,” he explains.
And Bernard Cazeneuve invoked François Mitterrand and his campaign in 1981: “In all his speeches, (he) explained how unemployment had led French citizens to lose their dignity, how important it was that we fight for [qu’ils] find a job”.
A few days before, François Hollande, had also gone there with his comment: “At this level of quarrel, it would be better to live separately,” the former head of state had slipped.
Source: BFM TV
