Do not speak to him any more about the character of Philippe Rickwaert. Julien Dray no longer wants to influence in the shadows. The former socialist leader thus announces in Point launch a movement called “Reinvent! to “rewrite a social project” and bring out a new generation.
“I have done enough for others by believing each time that I was going to influence them. I no longer believe in it and no one makes me want to influence it anymore, ”explains the former socialist deputy who inspired the series. dark baron. “I decided not to waste my time in the internal battles of the Socialist Party, in the refoundations, in the combinations”, he specifies.
“I’m past the age of playing Lego”
Emphasizing that “today there are more ex-socialists outside the party than inside”, he said he wanted to work “with them”. His new movement is not, however, a political party. “I am past the age of playing Lego. Assembling doesn’t interest me anymore. I want to work on the merits and with all goodwill, all Republicans. Everyone can even contribute ideas from Reinvent! in his political party. Our vocation is to rewrite a social project,” he insists.
At 67, he calls himself a “candidate for nothing”, even if Emmanuel Macron asked him to join the government if he were re-elected. ” It’s finish. (…) I am only looking for one thing, in which I have always believed: that of a successor”. “Contrary to popular belief, young people are not disinterested in public life,” he explains. “It’s with them that I want to work, a bit like the big brother, or like those who used to be called the people’s educators”. He therefore prefers today “to be a good old schoolteacher than a black baron”.