Former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced Wednesday to the regional weekly La Manche Libre his departure from the PS after the conclusion of an agreement for the legislative elections between this party and LFI.
“I left the Socialist Party in disagreement with the alliance made with the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, declared Bernard Cazeneuve, referring to “a political formation, La France Insoumise, whose violence I had to endure, the excess of positions, the insults also when I was in government, especially when the death of Rémi Fraisse ”, an activist who died during a demonstration in 2014, while Bernard Cazeneuve was Minister of the Interior .
The leaders have “lost their compass”
“I also have a clear and firm conception of secularism, of the Republic”, he continues, “which prohibits any convergence with those whose thinking on these questions is more than ambiguous”. François Hollande’s last head of government (2016-2017) finally invokes “old hostility of the LFI to the European project”.
Bernard Cazeneuve announced on social networks on Tuesday that he would leave the PS in the event of a legislative agreement with La France insoumise, believing that its leaders have “lost their compass” of “republican socialism”.
Jean-Marc Ayrault, stationed at Matignon at the start of François Hollande’s five-year term, between 2012 and 2014, for his part described Wednesday as “tinkering” the agreement concluded between LFI and the PS, regretting a “form of resignation” from the part of his party.