2023-06-12 09:43:38
First meeting before the European elections or pre-presidential meeting? Between 1,500 and 2,000 people gathered at the Robert-Oubron sports hall in Créteil on Saturday June 10 to attend the launch of La Convention, the movement of former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. At his side, in particular, the former President of the Republic François Hollande as well as the former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, who assured him of their confidence in rebuilding the “left of government” French-style.
Strong support which is added to that of many personalities of social democracy, such as the mayor (Socialist Party, PS) of Créteil Laurent Cathala, the president (various left) of the Brittany region Loïg Chesnais-Girard, the former Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, the mayor (left union) of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse, the president of the Radical Left Party Guillaume Lacroix, or even the former first secretary of the PS Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.
In stifling heat, the speakers alternately denounced the “Sound and the Fury” of the Melenchonist left, “excesses and invectives” as well as “populists” the “hatred of others” and the “temptation of nationalist withdrawal”. Black point, none of the figures of socialism anti-New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) gathered last week in Montpellier made the trip, the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, appearing only through messages projected on giant screens, just like the mayor of Le Mans and former minister, Stéphane Le Foll.
Background and experience
But what an overheated and rather grizzled public was waiting for was first of all François Hollande, who was acclaimed and applauded heartily, and of course Bernard Cazeneuve. “Out of the Woods” to, it seems, take the head of the anti-Nupes sling within the left, the lawyer defended his political career while highlighting his experience as a minister and head of government. Over the course of a 23-page speech, which lasted almost an hour and a half, the former mayor of Cherbourg “welcomed the country’s recovery action by François Hollande”and denounced ” the decrease “, “communitarians” et “extreme left”accused of having targeted him after the evacuation of the « jungle » of Calais, in 2016, when he was Minister of the Interior. At the time, many associations, journalists and researchers had documented the violence of the dismantling.
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