Book. How can a former government party tumble to the point of near extinction? Who is responsible for the sinking of Anne Hidalgo in the last presidential election (1.7% of the vote)? In Corpse autopsya book teeming with anecdotes, Olivier Pérou leads the investigation and tries to identify the culprit or culprits of such a berezina.
The journalist identified seven suspects, from the most blatant, Anne Hidalgo herself, to the most peripheral, such as the ephemeral candidate Arnaud Montebourg. Two chapters recount in detail the risky campaign led alone by the mayor of Paris, her complex relationship with the Socialist Party (PS), which is not “definitely not his cup of tea”, and its improvised programmatic proposals, such as doubling the salaries of teachers or limiting the speed on the highway to 110 kilometers per hour. What to freeze his image of“ultra-Parisian” and act as a foil to voters. The mayor of Paris is not the only questioning.
At the beginning of history, there is Bernard Cazeneuve. The former interior minister of François Hollande has retained the stature of a statesman from his duties. To the point that some dream of seeing him present himself. Only here, the man, described as “stylish”never had to “get your hands dirty” in an election campaign or within a party. We have always come looking for this « dandy »who loves nothing so much as“to be desired”. Once again he will spin ” in English “, preferring the comfort of the law firm where he officiates.
The former president is plotting
The twirling Arnaud Montebourg also takes it for his rank. Like when he tries to « trianguler » on the right, by proposing to ban money transfers to countries that do not accept their nationals. Another suspect: Christiane Taubira, who had already parasitized Lionel Jospin’s campaign in 2002. The former minister of François Hollande no longer wants politics, but there are these anonymous people who push “Taubira for 2022”, and the popular primary, a setting imagined as a propelling force at the service of his candidacy. So she begins to dream of “save the honor of the PS”an idea that “seduced Olivier Faure”. The case turns into water sausage.
The first secretary of the PS is also scanned by Olivier Pérou. Enigmatic Olivier Faure, with a “harlequin” career, who was “follower of Michel Rocard and the second left”, before collaborating with François Hollande, to convert to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He ends up becoming the darling of the “rebellious”. Supreme betrayal for the party apparatchiks, the fifty-year-old “did not want a socialist presidential candidate”.
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